Hi Bill,

Thanks for the note ...

What I was minding was putting quotes on parameters as I called the macro.

Wanda suggested putting the instructions into a file and defining it as a
server script; that happily reads in the '$1' without griping or doing a
literal substitution (at call) and getting the search right : not searching
for (e.g) stg=$1 rather than stg=backuppool.

So I'm going with that ...  all help appreciated!

Best regards, Sheelagh
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