Some of you have read how much I like the DF (Directory Freedom) program. And how I use DF in the middle of my un-Zip/re-Zip .BAT file to view the files before re-Zipping (and delete junk too).... Well, in my playing around with the new LIST74, I have discovered a way to pipe the output of SSCAN (SuperScan 1.2, a program that displays the ASCII chars in a file) into LIST. This command: sscan filenam | list /w /s will pipe the ASCII chars from SSCAN into LIST for viewing, without creating a permanent file! I have added the equivalent of the above into the user installed command set of DF and can now do a quicky SSCAN of any file that is displayed on the DF DIR list!!! sscan ~ | list /w /s LIST is really more powerful than I realized. BTW, the /W switch causes LIST to wrap all the data to 80 chars per line, and the /S is required for piped input to LIST. And, curiously, the /W MUST appear before the /S, else the Wrap won't work. Anyway, enjoy all three: LIST74A.ZIP, SSCAN12.ZIP, and DF351.ZIP.... They can give you a bit more security when perusing new files. Jim Robeson