Mahaj,

That didn't work for me. When I tried to get to RMAN, I got another error. There were such a compilations of errors that I just gave up and deleted the database and rebuilt it. I lost all the information on it, of course, but I found out that it had corrupted information, the backup was only good for a short time (which had expired), etc.

Thank you for your time, though. I appreciate your response and will keep that coding for when I need it again.

Thanks again and sorry you went to the trouble.

Steve M.