hi folks here is a application that I thought some of us could use, it's safe, it's accessible out of the box, and other reports says it works well, I Installed it and did the registration and fired it up, could access the controls, so it's looking good, as a give away, the things to expensive for a purchased product I think, but for free it has my thumbs up: Giveaway of the Day - Text Conversion Software PRO www.giveawayoftheday.com April 30, 2008 This software is great text conversion software. It allows to easily convert from text to hex, hex to text, binary to text, text to binary, and ASCII to text or text to ASCII, recoding/decoding and base64, octal to text and more! Plus you can select a number of files to process automatically in batch (batch text conversion), and specify a default filename extension, or simply input some text into a text box and convert that way. System Requirements: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista Publisher: HotHotSoftware Homepage: http://www.hothotsoftware.com/... File Size: 1.99 MB Price: The program is available for $49.95, but it will be free for our visitors as a time-limited offer. HTH, Inthane . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and Links to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me at: http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com . to be able to view a simple programming project in several programming languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at: http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com