Hi Susan - thanks for the feedback. A few points if I may:

- I love the DOS version of the DT. It's very quick, it's free, it'll run on the most ancient of PC's, and you can work offline. Bust most importantly it gives a concise list of songs with attributes, such as "give me all the @bawdy @irish songs that don't have a tune attached to them.

- In a previous thread (somewhere?) Dick did detail the syntax for doing such a search (esp. the "no tune" bit), but I can't relocate it. I think it involved the use of curly brackets!

- A LOT of Scottish songs do not have @scots in the references. In order to contribute the songs above I did the search for @scots and initially had about 80 songs on my contribution list. A secondary search of the entire whittled this list down to about 10.

Regards
John