Greg: You said: > Now, I'd like to search these library files based on specified criteria > much like I can do for my list database. Is this possible and if so, > how is it done? I am not familiar with VM enough to even remotely have a clue how to do this, but the answer to your question is, I think, it cannot be done with the current version of LISTSERV for VM. I wanted to do the same thing. I wrote a workaround for this a while back but it's not working at the moment (minor mod needed and other chores taking precedence). The workaround involves having a duplicate set of files on a Unix host and using a perl script to go through and search for the files. One thing that *does* work is a simple text phrase search. You can see this at: gopher://global.kidlink.org/77g/allmenu This host is running gn, which is a Gopher-compliant server that has an integral search engine. Almost all the files on the host here are duplicates of our LISTSERV library files which are on a remote host and updated via an AFD script setup (see previous post by me today). My plan is to update the (currently) non-functional perl script so that it can be accessed from a WWW form. Depending on your knowledge of how all this stuff works, I suppose you could do some magic with NFS disks and symbolic links to avoid duplicating files on different hosts, but I don't know about all that stuff and the solution I came up with works as good as needed. Good luck. Cheers Mark Hunnibell Email: [log in to unmask] KIDLINK Gopher/WWW Coordinator http://www.connix.com/~markh/index.html