On Fri, 24 Feb 1995 01:19:26 -0600 Winship <[log in to unmask]> said: >Ok, I've been deliberately obtuse. I wanted a new option (maybe before >"quiet," maybe between "quiet" and "set" maybe at the end of the >command) regulating the output. The answer seems to be "no" so I'll >forget it. For now. Yes, I understood that. But I'm not going to implement an option whose sole purpose is to make it possible to filter the regular output of a command that under certain conditions may end up being quite large and could fill up your mailbox. Getting back to your problem, which is to issue the command without getting 3500 lines of output, I told you how you can suppress the output. It's easy enough to send a second QUERY command for just one subscriber to see whether the command has been processed yet. These global SET aren't something you do every day either. Eric