This works as designed. If you send a command in a file, you will get the output in a file. If you had sent this command interactively, you would have got an interactive reply. ECHO=NO only means the COMMAND will not be echoed back to you, ie you won't have '> GET CONTROL FILELIST' in the reply (and of course, if the reply is 0 lines it is not sent at all). In 1.5n and below, the reply was forced as 'interactive message or nothing', for some unknown reason (I was probably half asleep when I wrote that piece of code). Now Internet users who order a file, especially through a server like Mark's MAC server, wouldn't know whether the file is sent or not and if yes, under what name. Getting a small note telling you the file is coming prevents you from resending your request on the basis that mail is not safe. To suppress the message, put 'ECHO=NO,REPLY-TO=NONE' on the JOB card. Eric