When you are in fileA and use: popup ("1","1") update fileB, 1 and press <esc> <esc>, when you go into fileB and look at the screen you see that the information was posted but @ud did not register. It should have shown today's day. What can I do to cause @ud to be updated when posting from fileA to fileB. I am on AIX Unix. Dennis Malen 516.479.5912