This has already been discussed and should be in the archives. The new filelist you attempted to store the first time was a copy of a filelist which you had not obtained with the CTL option. It was in the wrong format. When you forced LISTSERV to accept it by logging on to it and placing it on its 191 and then used the CTL option, you had used the CTL option but you still had a file in an invalid format. The discrepancy is due to "cheating" by writing directly to its disk. Eric