Pete Weiss writes: > If you become familiar with these LDBASE techniques, you can find > the answers to most questions that have already taken place. Pete, I've learned an immense amount from you over the years, and I greatly appreciate your willingness to help and, especially, to provide concrete examples. But I disagree with you about the message I sent. I read both LSTOWN-L and HELP-NET. Thus, I've probably seen most of the messages a database search would turn up, and they didn't prove useful. The reason they didn't is that I lacked the basic knowledge of how the filter= feature works. And even if that information IS contained SOMEWHERE in the logfiles, wading through 1000 messages that contain the keyword "filter=" hardly seems like an efficient use of my time. What I needed was what Jim Gerland provided: a statement of when the filter= feature was added and what documentation describes it. I wrote for the file LSV-V17F CHANGES and there it was. I missed it the first time around because there was so much other information provided at the same time. I didn't know what would prove important for me. I'm a big fan of database searches, but there are times when what's needed is a single filename. Joan Korenman Internet: [log in to unmask] Bitnet: korenman@umbc