as of now, im no good with sockets,lol, but i can code in C++ & Java pretty well, including reading in and writing to files (prefer StringBuffer in Java) but, i appreciate it, and Chris: sorry, didn't know, figured if i was going to ask this would be the best first try,lol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ../attachments/20040715/1d2bde1c/attachment.html