I have written a command that, among other lings, logs its activity in a circular file. It does so using the ECHO command and redirecting the output to the circular file. I have no problem includding the current time in HH:MM format, but I have now received a request to log the seconds as well (HH:MM:SS). I am getting the hours and minutes from the MPE variables !HPHOUR and !HPMINUTE respectively, but I cannot find a way to get the current time down to the second from an MPE command file. Does anyone have any ideas? I'd like to avoid having to call a program just for this, if possible. Reply or e-mail would be good. Thanks in advance . . . :-) Jim Fennell InterPay, inc. email: [log in to unmask]