An experiment is described in which plasma flow to a tokamak limiter is controlled through the use of a local toroidal divertor coil mounted inside the limiter itself. This coil produces a local perturbed fieldBCapproximately equal to the local unperturbed toroidal fieldBT&bartil;3 kG, such that whenBCadds toBTthe field lines move into the limiter and the local plasma flow to it increases by a factor as great as 1.6, and whenBCsubtracts fromBTthe field lines move away from the limiter and the local plasma flow to it decreases by as much as a factor of 4. A simple theoretical model is used to interpret these results. Since these changes occur without significantly affecting global plasma confinement, such a control scheme may be useful for optimizing the performance of pumped limiters.