Well, I just discovered that if I use quotes around the message, the program will send the whole thing, which solves my one word problem (though it would still be nice not to have to use quotes...). Still clueless on the second problem, though.... BTW, why doesn't SEND like the ! symbol? Regards, Bob -- Robert E. Williams, Jr. | "Some people never learn anything because Macintosh Developer | they understand everything so quickly." Enterprise Software | --Alexander Pope ___________________________________________________________________ [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] http://miavx1.acs.muohio.edu/~williar2