.. and if the listening side is on a different server ? That's the whole point of this actually. You can run import from a pipe on one server while export is running on another server supplying the data. I ran them here on the same server, as the only other *nix box that that I have access to that could be used in this test doesn't currently have a database on it. I could have used an ssh tunnel to create the table on a database at home, but our security folks take a dim view of such things. Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------