Ben, Thanks. With the information reassembled on one line I got to wa.exe etc. That enables one to move around between posted messages, but still isn't, as far as I can see, an archive of the kind I want to create. I want to be able to go, for example, to a folder "Book Reviews" and locate all the book reviews that have been posted in, say, the last two years. I don't think that is possible using the data base commands (if that is what wa.exe is) is it? Dennis Dennis(Newson) University of Osnabrueck GERMANY (retired) www.dennisnewson.de