Yea, that's the ticket. ;-) Unless you've modified your system, an attempt to "SPOOL PUNCH TO <x>" will result in RC(53) "DMKCSP053E <x> NOT IN CP DIRECTORY" if <x> has a password of NOLOG. RSCS uses the SPOOL command to send a file to the user's virtual reader, so in a vanilla (or maybe even fudge swirl) CP, the list userid must exist in the CP directory as a non-NOLOG. Ross Patterson Rutgers University