Yes, I know nothing about Sockets. I created a simple socket from examples that I found. It works fine saying hello world. I don’t deal with internet programming, I deal with data, data retention, data manipulation, data collection etc.. The technicians that spend hours transferring the large data files from the secured/isolated remote testing network to the workstation know nothing about logging on remotely. Their managers wont let them spend the time logging on remotely (I gave them simple instruction), it is very political. They have read/write access to the shared link to where they put the data on the workstation. When they were done getting the data to the shared workstation I wanted to make a batch file or a perl script that they could simply double click to run the conversion. They know when the data is available and sometimes the data is needed to be converted asap. I do have scheduled times for data conversion but they sometimes need the data at strange time. Sorry to waist your time.