Thank you everybody for the input.

Recap and thoughts or questions:

You can have a user defined stored proc in the master database that will return data specific to...

The three part naming convention works fine to get at data in another database. But what if you wanted this to be the varible part of the stored proc?

So 'FROM...

The files are on another server. Novell 4.11. I suppose the next variable to eliminate is the network by copying over the files and then having the DTS run...