In Regards to your letter <v02140b01ae0059ecd385@[206.14.80.95]>: > connection at a time, it should work fine. I'm not aware of any way to have > 2 or more simultaneous connections in MacPerl because it doesn't support > process forking. You would have to make the sockets non-blocking and use select. I believe MacPerl supports this. tim. time@ice.com <http://www.ice.com/> USENET - a slow moving self parody... ph