Thanks to those who have responded to my last email. As a follow up to my request for experience and advice on networking Finnigan instruments. The dual boot option was an option I had already considered along with the short falls mentioned by those who have responded. But it is nice to know that this is an option. Has anyone tried using PCTCP loaded on the computer running the instrument??? This is something I have done with my PC based seismic system but it is only running MSDOS and not Real32. I can access the files on the seismic system over the ethernet with any Win or Mac based computer via FTP. I was wondering if this setup would work on the Finnigan instruments??? Any more input would be appreciated. Thanks again. Cheers, Dave **************************************************************************** David A. Mucciarone Stanford University Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, 320 Stanford, CA 94305-2115 650-723-0817 (office) 650-725-0979 (fax) e-mail: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://pangea.stanford.edu/~dam ****************************************************************************