Hi Mark! I telnet on localhost. Telnet always exits fine, when I keep the server running and the server reports it. But when I've reset the whole sampler and quit the server (with ^c), it goes to the point of stopping diskthread. I'll try netcat though and see if it stays the same. Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net - the Linux TextBased Studio guide