OK I'm busted! I'm not a professional programmer, just a respectable amateur. The logon script already has several error tests with recovery branches which are fairly robust. But the script runs in the middle of the night and every now and again it will not log on. So under those conditions an exit ...

Thanks, I thought of that too and can make it work. But it seems so inelegant compared to just bolting. Even after scripting for a couple of years it always baffled me that I could not find a simple script termination method. But I guess if it is not there, it is not there. Thanks again.

Does anyone know a way to terminate a script (keeping MS running) without simply jumping to the end? I have a script which calls a series of subroutines. In one of those subroutines the script attempts to log on to a network resource. It is usually there, but sometimes not. In that case the logon su...