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Hi ngagne, spot on, looks like I am doing the only thing possible. All, thanks for the ideas / suggestions.

Hi agn ICISYD The problem is an odd one. The winsock app works ok but if the remote side drops (Via the internet in this case) the state recalled is wrong until U try to pass data to the remote side (I chk state app side with timer every 10secs). I noticed that telnet servers also seem to have...

Hi ICISYD ok, yep, that works but if the connection is dropped after say 5mins then the winsock state still comes back as connected, untill I send data through the telnet connection, then the state reports correctly that the connection is lost. A real pain having to send data to get state.

Hi vbrocks, I have tried using winsock.state before but it brings up a connected status even if the telnet link was lost (easy to test, just pulled the ethernet cable out the back of the PC).

Hi I use winsock for a telnet link and I find that the only way to find out if the connection is up is to send a vbcrlf to the destination. I would have thought that winsock.status would have checked open conn but it does not. Is there an easy way to check the connection is open without sending...

(((<<<That 'something' was the 'DataType' property of some text objects. I had set these to 'numerical' from blank. Tried to revert, but the only option (nearest to blank) allowed was 'general', and the message was still appearing.There was no way I could go back to the blank state.>>>)))...