I use a trick like this to allow saving of dynamics into ho files for jhc, the same thing will work for network connections. see Info.Info for the data type, and Info.Binary for the binary serialization routines. http://repetae.net/dw/darcsweb.cgi?r=jhc;a=tree;f=/Info John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈