Did that -- no dice. I haven't gotten much further. I hear that you can put a Port=177 (is that the number?) in there to make sure it uses the right port, and I haven't done that yet. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '