Hi all, I wanted to thank all of those who responded. Most of the answers were on the right track. What did work was to alter the PUT command on the remote unix box as follows: put filex "filex ;rec=-256,,f,ascii" There were a lot of responses identifying the ;REC= option but the trick was to put it in double quotes as part of the TO FILE NAME. Thanks again, John John J. Archer ---- Opinions are my own, not my employer's. --- ph: 330-798-2190 fx: 330-798-3912 e-mail: [log in to unmask] IBM Global Services @ Continental General Tire One General St. Akron, Oh. 44329