Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! To get rid of anything older than June 15th, 2008 Using PKZIP v2.50 Edit killold.bat to contain your drive: & path to Arachne's mail dir. Place killold.bat & pkzip.exe v2.50 in your path. --- killold.bat --- pkzip.exe -T%1 -m oldsent.zip drive:\arachne_mail_dir\*.snt del oldsent.zip _______________________________________________ command line.... killold.bat 061508<enter> The -T option zips-up only those files older than the date specified. The -m option 'moves' them into the zip file by deleting the original file(s) after completing the ZIP. (if for any reason the zip process fails... no files get deleted) -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/msdog.html http://www.glennmcc.org/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --