-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Many thanks to Hynek and Greg, it's working The close paren was critical, and allowed the statement to be accepted during initialization. But I had to change the defvar to set! to permit my access list to work. Otherwise I retained my original syntax, which I guess could now be simplified, but not right now. I'll wait until it breaks before I fix it. Chuck - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (88% of Full) My new web site location is at: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net College, that fountain of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG19aA0maTgpPXM9cRAkBYAJ90zsyTTrhLJls3CYGkkPmC1AB1UACeLCfO uz4a2j5kX3yrhqfprt9PAmY= =MGc+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----