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Assuming that this is for a MSN socket updater It may be that the binary variable is not set, or no data was read from the socket into the binary variable. But just to test, i made the following: alias test1 { bset -t &test 1 0 echo -a $bfind(&test,1-,Authetication-Info:) } returns the '* Invalid parameters: $bfind (line 3, script6)' error alias test2 { bset -t &test 1 TEST Authentication-Info: TEST echo -a $bfind(&test,1-,Authetication-Info:) } returns 1