--- Log file timing "... retrieves and prints those log file every Monday morning ...". I think this simple solution cannot work, in spite of exact timing. Consider the following excerpt from a FILELIST of "weekly" logs: HP3000-L LOG9409A ALL OWN V 111 4302 94/09/07 23:18:35 Started on Wed, 31 Aug 1994 18:47:00 GMT HP3000-L LOG9409B ALL OWN V 497 4329 94/09/14 23:12:05 Started on Thu, 8 Sep 1994 03:49:52 GMT HP3000-L LOG9409C ALL OWN V 145 3552 94/09/21 21:13:50 Started on Thu, 15 Sep 1994 11:58:45 GMT HP3000-L LOG9409D ALL OWN V 80 1414 94/09/27 10:53:30 Started on Thu, 22 Sep 1994 08:39:48 EDT From which I gather (anybody correct me, please) that ListServ defines "week" as a period of no more than seven days, ending not later than midnight of day 7, 14 &c (no relationship with calendar week): fundamentally, a way to split huge logs in smaller parts. I don't know if a list owner has control on this. But it would be independent from log splitting to provide the teacher with a simple job for searching and printing (SEARCH * IN ... SINCE ... UNTIL ...): and more correct for timing, since database searches use date and time messages were sent (irrespective of actual reception and log switching). <-- Eugenio Gatto (CIDEM, Politecnico di Torino, Italia) TEL 39.11.564'6600 FACS 39.11.564'6609 EM [log in to unmask]