I am extremely busy those days because of all kinds of hardware problems on our machine. Channel 5 (the one the consoles are plugged in) sometimes goes into a series of interface control checks, disconnecting everybody. The 3250s hang the system on a VARY ON quite often because of intermittent short- circuits somewhere. One of our 3350s is malfunctioning, and it's no longer maintained officially. And we can't manage to have the 3812 printer talk to the mainframe. Besides there is a generalized strike in France. Train, bus and metro traffic is now from 10% to 30% of normal, and there are no trains after 8pm. It now takes 2h to come to FRECP11. I have received your mail, I'm not ignoring it -- it's merely piling on my reader until the problems get solved. If you really have something urgent to ask, you'd better give me a phone call at 36-61-33-10 ext 1287. Sorry for not having answered your mail yet, and sorry for not having time to look at your LISTSERV questions. Eric