I don't see why searching listserv archives can't be as simple as writing search <desiredword> in <listname> Why should it have to be more complicated? What good is all of that extra coding? Carl Reimann ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > search BLA in BLA This is not the proper way to access the LISTSERV database. You should either use the LDBASE user-interface for interactive access, or submit a DATABASE job. Please refer to LISTDB MEMO (available via an INFO DATABASE command) for more information. Summary of resource utilization ------------------------------- CPU time: 0.027 sec Device I/O: 3 Overhead CPU: 0.008 sec Paging I/O: 0 CPU model: 3084 DASD model: 3380