> to ask. Probably my way of asking made the question unclear. Can you help me > finding other ways of working around the length problem, short of cutting up > the lines and reassembling them after transfer? Here's another solution to allow developers to analyze their trace files (using OraSRP profiler): 1. Tell the developer to use unique tracefile_identifier (alter session set tracefile_identifier='uniq_devid') before enabling extended SQL trace. 2. Create .htpasswd file in user_dump_dest and add an entry in this file for this developer. This step may be considered as optional, depending on your security settings. 3. Run OraSRP on the server (let's call it prod01) like this: $ orasrp.py -d /path/to/user_dump_dest --htpasswd --pattern=uniq_devid --port=3000 After that just provide the developer with the link (http://prod01:3000/). Developer can now analyze his/her own trace files. But he/she still doesn't have access to other's traces and is not able to view raw traces (with systemstate dump, for example). -- Egor http://www.oracledba.ru -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l