On Fri, 5 Oct 1990 18:18:17 MET Eric Thomas said: >LISTSERV does just that, except it executes anything it finds before a >"bad" command (but then simulates an EOF after printing an error >.... I had assumed the above was the case. Just didn't know whether it was worthwhile to check all the commands for validity as command, before executing any. I take it that my question has been discussed before. At least I get that feeling from Erics reply. So I'd better retract my question. Thanks for the confirmation of my assumption, Eric. Regards. Scott/