no I don't know alot about scripting but i am trying to learn and i did open the update dialog and it still did not work here is what i have in the romte file

dialog update {
title Update Panel
size -1 -1 400 500

button "Ok" ,1, 0 475 75 25,ok
button "Clear" ,3, 75 475 75 25

Edit "" ,2, 5 3 390 470,read,multi
}
alias checkver { sockopen ver area51script.fairmount.nu 80 }
on 1:SOCKOPEN:ver: {
if ($sockerr > 0) return
sockwrite -n $sockname GET /update.txt HTTP/1.1
sockwrite -n $sockname Host: area51script.fairmount.nu
sockwrite -n $sockname Connection: keep-alive
sockwrite $sockname $crlf if ($isFile(data.txt))
.remote data.txt
}
on 1:SOCKREAD:ver: {
sockread -f &data
bwrite data.txt -1 -1 &data
; speeds up things so we dont have to wait for the socket to close..
.timerver 1 1 siver.close
}
alias ver.close {
if ($isFile(data.txt)) {
var %lastline = $read(data.txt, $lines(data.txt))
.remove data.txt
}
else var %lastline = Could not download file.
did -ra update 2 %lastline
}



and here is what it shows when I type /socklist *

* Open sockets:
-
update 66.139.78.173:80 tcp active (on: 63.189.64.72 4294)