On 30 Sep 2005, at 11:30, Listserv Manager wrote: >Since my signup files are twice the recommended size, I either need to >increase the number of files, or else clean these up. I choose to clean >them up, but- it's a huge task. It looks like the password semaphore may change on different OS'es or, more likely my older notes were scrambled. On OpenVMS I just stopped the server, did an ftp mget on the files to my PC, renamed them signup.* input.*, ran a bat file with one command line for each file: regina prune.prg input.file1 signup.file1 ...and then put them back and restarted Listserv. Regina is just PC REXX, prune.prg is: /* Prune signup file by tossing records without password */ parse arg filein " " fileout if fileout = "" then do say "Usage: prune filein fileout" return end passws = '8A'X /* password semaphore */ loops = lines(filein, 'C') recout = 0 do n = 1 to loops current = linein(filein) if pos(passws, current) > 0 then do call lineout(fileout, current) recout = recout+1 end end say "Lines in: " loops " Out: " recout return