>can anyone help me out with some instruction with sending a character string thru tcp/ip to a windows port 2000 that is currently waiting. i have never done anything like this before.
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>thanks!!

You can download my Winsock example from http://members.bellatlantic.net/~lmiller3/downloads/winsock_test.zip. It has a "client" and "server" piece. It sounds like you will only need the client piece.

HTH.