BTW, I think if you do a partial-lsearch you can use the same file you are already using ... I don't remember now, it has been a few months since I last fooled with it but I think a partial will return only the first field and ignore the data that it finds in the file. George Bonser Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null