I cannot enter a TAR. I have 9.2.0.5 database which exports certain data and the export failed twice, in the same place, with: EXP-00030: Unexpected End-Of-File encountered while reading input . . exporting table STATS$SQL_WORKAREA_HISTOGRAMerror closing export file EXP-00002: error in writing to export file EXP-00002: error in writing to export file EXP-00000: Export terminated unsuccessfully Please, don't ask me why am I exporting PERFSTAT data. Not my idea. -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mgogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l