Subj : Hot port To : Mvan Le From : Jerry Schwartz Date : Thu Sep 21 2006 06:34 pm Hello, Mvan... I spent some time on this, and eventually gave up. If I remember correctly, the problem had to do with ownership of the port. When BinkleyTerm exits, the port becomes owned by the shell and it won't give it back, or something like that. You might try it using CMD.com, rather than the 16-bit shell, but I think it would have occurred to me to try that. Regards, Jerry Schwartz mailto:jerryschwartz@comfortable.com http://www.writebynight.com --- Msged/NT 6.0.1 * Origin: Write by Night (1:142/928) .