I'm no expert on programming, but Gates has a closed sourcecode, so I doubt that mIRC is programmed in "Windows", but be that as it may, I apologize for being vague. I haven't used Dragon; that's why I wanted to know if it would work with mIRC. I do a little scripting and things like time stamping are written in UNIX. That's to be able to program a right mouse contextual menu, etc. Don't know if that is any clearer, but we'll see.