Aha, I was hoping that there was some simple way to do it I had missed and that it wouldn't be needed to resort to something like that qwerty. As a matter of interest, can the cid of the Nth connection be <N? I thought that mirc assigned cid's as the connections were made, so first that connection id is always >= connection number - or will it reassign unused connection IDs? I think it probably wouldn't, or shouldn't at least, for obvious reasons.