Carlie, A couple of other questions: 1. What is the fully-qualified revision level of your operating system (send me the output of the command "uname -R"). 2. What is the type of file system on which the error occurs: "efs" or "xfs" (send me the output of the command "mount <dir>", where <dir> is the directory that contains the file in question). -------- Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>