If you're writing posts like that here, I don't blame her... Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

It was a throw away line that most people didn't perceive as one. Alcohol is great for getting over unhappiness if it isn't long term. Other than that like everything else in life it isn't a panacea. Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So i had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004

Before calling connect, add a call to set the socket up as non-blocking: ULONG ulParam = 1; ioctlsocket(m_hSocket, FIONBIO, &ulParam); Then call connect as normal. After calling connect, you can do a select (writing) with whatever timeout you want to see if the socket has connected - if the socket can be written to it is connected. Regards, Simon

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