The documentation in MAKE.DOC is the man page from UNIX 4.3BSD VMS-ified to correspond to the features of my version of make. Define the foreign command $ make :== $ yourdev:[yourdir]make Giving a question mark as a parameter on the command line should produce a usage description. Options can be interspersed with targets on the command line. The only important caution is that when using '-f' you leave a space between the 'f' and the actual filename. All the options displayed in the usage() routine are by default negated. Thus, the default mode of operation is (NOKEEP, NOIGNORE, NOWAIT, NOVERIFY, NODEBUG, NOKEEP, EXECUTE). The makefile and make.ini provided should give a good example of the uses to which MAKE can be applied. Please send me mail with suggestions for improvements as well as reports on discovered logic errors. Thanks for your help... Todd Aven the Softwear Sweatshop (301)345-1692 Net addresses: Internet: todd@cincom.umd.edu, umdhep@eneevax.umd.edu BITNET: TODD@UMCINCOM, AVEN@UMDHEP