>Eric, Could this  be fixed? I, too,  would like to put my  lists in neat
>columns. :-)
 
No Rex, it cannot be fixed. This  file is not something for human beings,
it's a  computer file to associate  a human being fileid  with a computer
fileid, and this  must be done FAST. You probably  realize that there are
sites  with thousands  of public  files, and  reading thousands  of lines
while passing them through something like:
 
do i = 1 to #lines
   parse var l.i fn ft ifn ift ifm exit
   if fn = ufn & ft = uft then leave /* found */
end
 
is going to take SECONDS of CPU time  (4 seconds on a 4341-12 for lines =
2000, actually). It takes less than 0.1 second to do an LSVFILER with the
FIND option on the same file.
 
  Eric