Rather than going to the raw TCPGUI command, would it be at all possible for you to just make the proper calls to WA? Keeping in mind that I am NOT one of the WA programmers (and therefore this may be incomplete), here is what I was able to find out: X-GETTPL listname [WWW:]template (use SITE as listname for the site templates, use WWW:template to get the Web templates) Response: ***NF*** = not found ***OK*** = found -- the contents of the template follows For the special templates that are not in MAILTPL or WWWTPL, surround the name with "*", i.e. *WELCOME* *FAREWELL* *DIGEST-H* *INDEX-H* X-PUTTPL listname [WWW:]template [contents] where contents follows the same format as X-STL, with the subject/description string being the first "line". If contents is missing, you're deleting the template. If it succeeded, you should get a ***OK*** response. I don't think I can help more with X-STL than the developer manual. -- Francoise Becker What are your favorite LISTSERV(R) announcement lists? Submit nominations by December 1, 2005 for the LISTSERV Choice Awards Announcement Award http://www.lsoft.com/news/choiceawards.asp