Hi, I did a export using split pipe compressed. Now I am trying import using : nohup cat xaa xab xac xad > split_pipe & nohup uncompress –c split_pipe > i_pipe & nohup imp file=i_pipe .. but I am getting error IMP-00009: abnormal end of export file IMP-00000: Import terminated unsuccessfully I created the pipes using mknod similar to export which had no problem terminated without warnings. Any idea what can be the problem. The data is too big to do it without split or compress. Thanks for help. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l