IBM has released a fix for the problem of uucp being *so* slow. Refer to apar #ix18820. You will need 3005 before you can use it though. I have not tested it yet. BTW, IBM doesn't consider this to be much of a problem. We had to kick and scream before they would fix it. Thanks to our SE for helping. -- Tony Holden live on the edge, tony at jassys Bank in Texas