For the umpteenth time: The D-disk is a scratch work disk, which is erased at startup and cannot be used to archive files. I know this would be convenient since you would then not have to ask systems people to make another disk, but this is not open to discussion. The reason LISTSERV needs a scratch disk is that it needs to be sure it has a certain amount of scratch space available for work files. If you fill that reserved space with arbitrary amounts of files, you no longer have a known amount of reserved space. If the amount is so small that it would be no problem, there is no reason it cannot go to the A-disk. The FILEDISK variable is described as "the filemode of the DEFAULT disk to be used for storing files via the PUT command". This is a default filemode, so what is LISTSERV supposed to do if it has two values, flip a coin? Eric