I am so new to this that I didn't even realize 'invalid logical name' was referring to the character length. My only exposure to programming has been to write CL programs on the i Series and errors containing the word 'logical' mean something totally different - my presumption (obviously incorrecty) was that the error was based on the path through which the SAS program was accessing the file. This makes a lot of sense, thanks everyone. Adam
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