>... The only way to cause the file to be >reformatted to clean up old entries is GLOBALV INIT, or at least it's the only >way that I know of. This will cause all other GLOBALV variables to be lost... Not a big problem. There are 3 kinds of GLOBALV variables. They are for incore, and two disk files. If no INCORE ones were used then you could periodicly run the GLOBALV INIT w/ no problems. Another alternative is to have a demon process to reflect the incore ones to the disk file type not already used, do the INIT, and convert the 2nd disk file type ones back to incore ones. The disk file associated w/ this 2nd type could then be erased before and after this process. Ugly? Yes. -njg