I checked this against client versions 2.0.58, 2.0.51, 2.0.41 and all of them corrupt the data by importing the binary as text! The reverse, 2.5. client connects to 2.0.41 server fails completly with "The given file handle is invalid". From my point of view version 2.5 is now completly incompatible to 2.0. Olaf