Jeremy, I would think the preferable manner of archiving SCREEN-L would be as text files. One big advantage to this is that they can be searched using the BITNET database searcher LDBASE (easily downloadable from your local server). If the files were compacted, zipped, etc. one would have to GET the file then unzip, or decompressed it before one could discover if it was the thing you were searching for. Bob Kosovsky New York Public Library--Music Division bitnet: [log in to unmask] internet: [log in to unmask]