I would be more interested in why "Q * for address@host" is taking so long that you feel you need to use FIND or grep on the physical files to discover which lists the address is subscribed to.  That suggests a performance tuning problem to me, or slow hardware, or possibly that you are running Classic when you really need to be running HPO.  Have you posed this problem to the L-Soft support team at [log in to unmask] ?

Nathan

At 11:18 AM 2/24/2010 -0600, Helmke,Richard A wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I want to find whether a particular user is subscribed in all lists.  I do
>> not want to use Query * as it is taking hell lot of time.
>>
>> Is there any other command which serve my purpose with in less time?
>
>I'm not sure if this is faster, but I have used grep (or $SEARCH on VMS) against the *.list files to see if a subscriber existed.
>-Rich
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