AURGH! I'm so stupid. Sorry about that last message, My finger slipped on the send button before I could write... Thanks for the info on the switches. It's kinda late now. I'll play with it more in the morning. from Keith H. --- You Wrote --- Hi, you must use specialswitches with the Red Hat version of rawrite. -f is for file name -d is for output destination -h is for help. Concidder this command. rawrite -f filename.bin -d a: <snip>