Thanks for ISS 1.3. FYI, on line 760 of iss.c, I had to change "extern char *rindex();" to "extern char *rindex(const char *, int);" to get a clean compile. This is under AIX 3.2.5, using the IBM-supplied cc. Brian -- Brian Court Senior Systems Software Specialist, The California State University bac@bedstraw.calstate.edu