With thanks to Leonard Berkowitz and the COBOL manual (very little help from the manual), I've got something that should work. I'll put it together tomorrow, and send it to the list since I got all kinds of 'that's a good question' replies and several wrong answers. :-) Ray Shahan "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans", John Lennon * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *