Well, I have no ASCII table here now but you'll have to get all the control characters and frame check bits right. I mean <SOH> and <EOT> just to name some. I would suggest that you have a look here instead: http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/psklivewindows Meaning that its possible to run pskmail even if your pc is infected by windows ;-) 73 de Per, sm0rwo On mån, 2008-09-08 at 17:47 -0700, Terry Settergren wrote: > hi, it occurs to me that perhaps I could have limited function from Windows > if I manually type in the strings for ping,link, and aprs message, say, using > nbems or flarq. Would this work, is this a good/bad idea? What are the > command string formats? > > Thanks,KE5FGX > Terry Settergren > > > >