I don't remember if anyone's mentioned this, so here goes. In VMFTP you can get the full test of the error message as follows in your VMFTP file:
'put 'fn'.'ft'.'fm problem'.49R.000.'ofn'.'oft'.PACKED.1024' If RC%100 <> 2 Then Signal Oops . . . Oops: Say execfn execft 'Return code' RC 'not expected' Say execfn execft OUTPUT.0 'lines returned:' Do j = 1 To OUTPUT.0 Say "'"Output.j"'" End Return RC I'm not sure that this'll work with your -5 return code, but it might. Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com