Thanks for the replies. I still cannot make it work as it did with DXTelnet. I used one hotkey before and this started DX4WIN and DXTelnet with an auto login. I can see that I have the handshake message wrong in DX4WIN for a start, so can someone tell me what that should be? Maybe then I can make some changes to the batchfile. 73 de Geo. 5B4AGC