Having thought about it a little more, It would be a major benifit if I could send this data or just some message to a specific port on a specific IP address using UDP. This way I could leave my RedRat2 connected to my main PC and write a VB app to listen at this port and do all the dirty stuff when it receives something?

Having a good idea of my Linux ineptitude by now, is this going to be easy too?

MK2 Red S/n 949