Thanks for the info sean. I will check out that link as well.

I am coding my software with realbasic so that I can have a crossplatform program. (windows and Mac OS).

I will look over the VB code as Realbasic is similar and I think will import VB code.

I can't wait to try this out. I know I have a lot to learn still with the I/O, but it looks pretty straight forward once you get into it.

Thanks again for the help and all the free info and software, it is a great help.

mike