You probably got some fix from me which had LSVFWR1 has a pre-req, and you didn't have LSVFWR1. That's one reason why I'm reluctant to send individual fixes out. Anyway the error used to be from EXECIO, but it is now from LSVFWR1. I have corrected the message. Oh, and the reason I made this stupid change and wrote this module is that EXECIO won't handle "STRING" options longer than 255 characters, because the first thing it does is copy the string into a buffer (just for fun), which implies it won't handle stuff longer than 255 under SP3 *at all*. And of course, there are these nonsensical mail files from this MVS (or was it UNIX?) system where all of the mail body is contained in a single SUBJECT: line which usually exceeds 255 chars... Eric