>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