You add entries to LINKSWT2 FILE to effect the changes you want to test. You then send it back to your server with a PUT command with the NODIST option (or you could use PUTC and then issue a NODESGEN WTONLY command to recompile it). You then use 'SHOW DPATH *' to see how files would then be distributed from your host. This is mostly something I do on my test server (using other EXEC's to display the DPATH tree for arbitrary nodes); fortunately, I hardly ever need to do that, and my present LINKSWT2 FILE only has one record (not counting comments). Eric