First of all, I would like to thank the folks posting here.. I have learned a lot. Now to my next issue - I am trying to create a script that will prompt a user with 7 questions. The answer needs to be appended to a file called changelog.txt. Question 1 is: How many jobs did you change? Question 2 is: What is/are the jobname(s)? Question 3 is: Date of change: Question 4 is: What is the CR number? Question 5 is: Was this an Add, Change, or Delete? Question 6 is: Date of first run is: Question 7 is: Give a brief description of the change: If possible, I would like to append the answers in line format.. Answer 1 should be in field #1, Answer 2 should be in field #2, and so on. Thanks again! BTW I am using ksh. Big Z

read R1?"How many jobs did you change? " read R2?"What is/are the jobname(s)? " . . . . read R7?"Give a brief description of the change: " echo "$R1;$R2;$R3;$R4;$R5;$R6;R7" >> changelog.txt Jean Pierre.

Thanks! works like a charm! Big_Z