On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Sampsa Laine wrote: Got an idea for that too :) Make the file human readable, but have a standardised "tag line" with all the relevant data on it in a simple-to-parse format (in this case pipe | separated), e.g. !HNINFO:1.401|CHIMPY|AlphaServer 800|OpenVMS 8.3|Comments go here| Or something. Here is the format I use. =INFO MONK XP1000/667, OpenVMS 8.3 =SERVICES MONK DEC Notes Conference MONK::HOBBYIST_DECNET =SERVICES MONK DEC Notes Conference MONK::PDP-10 =SERVICES MONK DEC Notes Conference MONK::PDP11 =SERVICES MONK DEC Notes Conference MONK::TEST =SERVICES MONK DEC Notes Conference MONK::VMS =INFO PDXVAX VAXstation 4000/60, VAX/VMS 5.5-2, Area Router =SERVICES PDXVAX Guest Login =SERVICES PDXVAX DEC Notes Client installed =SERVICES PDXVAX Multinet Bridge to area 2 I don't actually have any need to record the node number. Zane