CompuServe Messages

What, you didn't find the ARexx manual to be as lucid and explanatory as, say, K&R? 🙂 "Stem" is in the index under "symbol tokens: stem, 21". This worked for me: data.john = 'J' count.john = 10 data.rick = 'R' count.rick = 20 say data.john count.john ',' data.rick count.rick pull user say data.user count.user Now, that's not to say that it didn't take me a while to get this to work the way I thought it should. I think there's something that's not apparent to us linear, non-associative programmers – maybe it has to do with the difference .. hmm, no, that's not it. 🙂 From the examples in the ARexx book, and in the 'Rexx Handbook', it looks like you should be able to set the 'user' variable and retrieve the 'count'. That works in my example, but in yours where you're setting 'host' to 'mine' or 'them' it's not working.