> Isn't there a "friends and family" feature in Explain? Not within a single record. The 'Friends and Neighbours' feature was more that the Brief record was just host/port/dbname/title/description, and there's space for harvesting metadata, so when a database of the records gets built, you can include records for systems other than your own. Then in the zeerex attribute set, there's a 'search only databases on this machine' flag. Rob -- ,'/:. Dr Robert Sanderson ([log in to unmask]) ,'-/::::. http://www.o-r-g.org/~azaroth/ ,'--/::(@)::. Special Collections and Archives, extension 3142 ,'---/::::::::::. University of Liverpool ____/:::::::::::::. I L L U M I N A T I L5R Shop: http://www.cardsnotwords.com/