It probably means that a link was down for an extended period and files were backing up so some inexperienced systems fellow just TRANSFERred the files away from RSCS (instead of using SPTAPE!) and then transferred them back when the link came back up, destroying the origin ids in the process. This happened to us on about 3000 files for ARPA mailing lists -- boy, did I get hate mail from that one. ---------- David Boyes (503) 686-4394 |BITNET: 556@OREGON1 Systems Group |ARPA : 556%OREGON1.BITNET@ University of Oregon Computing Center| CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU UUCP: [your fav backbone]...!tektronix!uoregon!oregon2!oregon1!556