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Bill; I am virtually certain that you are right about the checkpoint file. The system this is about is a distributed processing system (the 11/34 is the host). There is extensive use made of the checkpoint file but the system restarts following powerfail almost always without a hitch. I suspect that there have probably been several thousand restarts with somewhere around 99% successful without operator intervention. I am back to the books but don't see anything in PIP that would do the job (not done searching though). Chris's suggestion to look at DSC might well turn out the be just the ticket. As I told him, I can not test the ideas myself as I am running the system on an 11/73 w/RD53 and TK50 (no DLs). Thanks again for the reply. Will let you know what I find out (if anything, since they can continue to use only 9 track B/U, if this does not work out). => 73 <=, bill => KB7LX@K4IWW <=