Pardon my ignorance, but either I'm just not getting it or I haven't properly explained what I'm trying to do. The big picture is that I'm trying to write a KIX script to allow our helpdesk to increase userhome quotas on a W2K server. I'm running a diskuse command to get the total amount of disk space in a userhome directory and piping the results of that to a text file. I then use SUBSTR to pull the numerical value out of the TXT file and into a STRING. I've read the manual and tried many different things, however, I can't get the syntaxt correct to convert this STRING to double values. I appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.