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John, You have hit on the one _real_ problem with the extended assigns — where does the file get written? From my limited playing around, I've found that it a file "created" in an extended-logical ends up in the first directory in the 'list'. Writing to an existing file ends up in the directory in which the file resides. Unfortunately, most editors that I have used save an existing file by first renaming the old to xxx.bak, and then write the new data to a "new" file. Consequently, I only use the extended assign logical device as a "read-only" device, enforced only by "gentleman's agreement". When I'm going to be modifying a file, I'll use a more explicit path. I do hope you'll look into using PathMan, though. That way you'll have an incentive to fix the Interchange file-requester, which has problems with the long "logical names" that end up being associated with the TAO: pseudo-device. <ducking> …BobR