On Wed, 5 Sep 90 18:13:17 O Eric Thomas said: >>1- What is the best way to erase a file in the Filelist. > >You send a 1-line file with a PUT command, or use the DELETE option of >LSVPUT EXEC. This indeed erases the file. It does not, however, remove its entries in XXX FILEID or XXX FILELIST, although in the latter it is marked as not available (nrecs = 0). Is there any way to COMPLETELY get rid of all trace of a file (short of signing on as LISTSERV and editing these two files)?