I am in the process of t transferring data from a CPM to unix environ and nee to swap a data field to a different format. Is it possible to use awk to change the 7th field of "YYMMDD" to show "MM/DD/YY" by using the awk command? Thanks for any help! Bob B. r -- Bob Beaulieu 277-b Tyrella Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 (415) 967-4678