Pete Weiss and Nathan Brindle gave me essentially the same answer to my problem with storing a MAILTPL file on VM--I needed to create a skeleton file first before the PUT command would work. The instructions for creating the skeleton file are in LSVOWNER FILELIST at Listserv@UBVM written by Jim Gerland. I haven't been able to complete the task yet but Pete said it worked for him. Thanks for the help. Kevin ** SIGNATURE LITE **