(Suddenly, to GET any file required the FILELIST be specified). It turns out someone did a GET/PUT of LISTSERV FILELIST without the CTL option. So the /F/ that create the FILELIST heirarchy were missing ... LISTSERV wasn't searching the FILELISTs as expected. Thanks to Kerry Anderson for finding this; guess that's why he is our LISTSERV maintainer and I'm the sometimes fill-in :-) Thanks to Peter Weiss of Penn State University and Melvin Klassen of University of Victoria for their help with this mystery. Wayne T. Smith Systems Group - CAPS BITNET/CREN: wts@maine University of Maine System internet: [log in to unmask]