By the way, it occurrs to me that "netsend" is a gaping security hole; anyone who knows your port number could send Pd commands to read and write files on your system. I'm trying to think of a way to restrict what a netreceive can do but in the meantime, perhaps you shouldn't tell the world what port numbers your patches use, or run anyone else's patch without changing the port number. And don't leave the help window open...