Note that SCAN is one of the new features of the code that will be eventually released as 1.8b. It was written 2 months after 1.8a was released and is thus not included in the "normal" 1.8a that most VM sites are running. It is however included in the XA-exploitation update that CUNY and a couple other sites are running. It is also standard in the VMS, unix and Windows versions, since they were released after SCAN was written and I didn't see any reason not to include it. But if your 1.8a server says there is no SCAN command, it doesn't mean something is wrong, it just means it is running the "normal" 1.8a. The reason there hasn't been any new release for 10 months is that we have to "freeze" the code for about 1-2 months before releasing a new version, so that the new version can be beta-tested seriously. During this period, fixes can of course be made but new functions or major changes are not allowed, since that in turn would require new testing and we would end up never releasing anything, since there would always be some new, untested code in the distribution. Because of the VMS, unix and Windows ports, it has been necessary to make a number of major changes to the code which are not compatible with beta-testing. This doesn't mean that improvements haven't been made, we've just not been able to make them widely available. The Windows version is expected to go beta next week and hopefully we should be able to start a beta-test phase after Christmas. These changes are a one-time thing and we should be back on the regular two releases a year schedule after that. Eric