I would be more interested in why "Q * for address@host" is taking so long that you feel you need to use FIND or grep on the physical files to discover which lists the address is subscribed to. That suggests a performance tuning problem to me, or slow hardware, or possibly that you are running Classic when you really need to be running HPO. Have you posed this problem to the L-Soft support team at [log in to unmask] ? Nathan At 11:18 AM 2/24/2010 -0600, Helmke,Richard A wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> I want to find whether a particular user is subscribed in all lists. I do >> not want to use Query * as it is taking hell lot of time. >> >> Is there any other command which serve my purpose with in less time? > >I'm not sure if this is faster, but I have used grep (or $SEARCH on VMS) against the *.list files to see if a subscriber existed. >-Rich >-- >Richard A. Helmke Internet: [log in to unmask] >Assoc Prof, Computer Science [log in to unmask] >System Manager, Technical Services Voice: 708-209-3221 >Concordia Administrative Information Systems Fax: 708-209-3177 >River Forest, IL 60305-1499