Susan, We do this here all the time. We have unattended PCs that do automated collection from time clocks, and they send their data back to the PC at scheduled intervals without human intervention. Data transfers are scheduled with a utility called Auto-Might, which runs under MS-DOS. We use Auto-Might's menus to schedule the times during the week that we want various actions to take place. Auto-Might "sleeps" in the background on the PC, letting you use it for other purposes during the times that nothing is scheduled to be run. When it is nearly time to run a scheduled task, Auto-Might shows a pop-up menu that lets you launch the scheduled job immediately, postpone it ("snooze" function), or cancel it. If nobody responds to the menu, the task will launch in a few minutes. On the Auto-Might menu, we tell it to run .BAT files. These in turn launch WRQ scripts to log on, transfer files, make backups, etc. I think this is still the current address for Auto-Might (anybody out there please correct me if I'm wrong...) The Pendulum Group, Inc. 333 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 1015 Englewood, Colorado 80110 (303) 781-0575 Hope this helps... -- Alida Jatich, Sr. Pgmr./Analyst Heinemann's Bakeries, Chicago IL