that works very well Riamus2, thanks..... i noticed you also did this:
Code:
 
 .timer 1 0 did -ra chan_stat 1 [color:#FF0000]$![/color]nick(%test.chan,0,o)


whats the purpose of that... from what i saw in the help file
Quote:
This is similar to the line above except for the addition of the $! parameter. This refers to the text you just typed into the parameter box.


don't really understand that either.. hehe