The first thing you should do is move all your notebooks to another disk. This way you don't have to worry about the 191 filling up and forcing LISTSERV to shut down. All the suggestions you made can be implemented relatively easily with locally written EXECs. You can for instance call an EXEC once a week or once a month that archives old notebook files to tape, or compresses them, or whatever. It is not practical to write a standard compression and archiving facility because the methods used vary so widely from one system to another, especially if you want to implement asynchronous archival. A generic facility could go well into the 1000 lines with numerous exits, while a program written just to solve your particular needs could fit in just some 50-100 lines of straightforward code. If VM had standard tools for compression and archiving, it would be another matter. Eric