Tony,

You very well may have had an HFS file with the name PUB underneath the
account. The HFS file won't show up in a report command because it is not an
MPE group. Yet a newgroup will fail with a duplicate directory entry.
Consider the following dialog where SOURCE is an MPE group and TESTGRP is an
HFS file.

:build ../TESTGRP
:report TESTGRP
ACCOUNT       FILESPACE-SECTORS     CPU-SECONDS    CONNECT-MINUTES
   /GROUP       COUNT    LIMIT    COUNT    LIMIT    COUNT    LIMIT
WERTH          846832       **    22059       **    69666       **
Non-existent group. (CIERR 908)
:newgroup TESTGRP
Duplicate name in directory. (CIERR 906)
:purgegroup TESTGRP
GROUP TESTGRP TO BE PURGED? (YES/NO)yes
Non-existent group. (CIERR 908)

:report SOURCE
ACCOUNT       FILESPACE-SECTORS     CPU-SECONDS    CONNECT-MINUTES
   /GROUP       COUNT    LIMIT    COUNT    LIMIT    COUNT    LIMIT
WERTH          846832       **    22059       **    69666       **
   /SOURCE      26416       **      472       **     2429       **

:newgroup SOURCE
Duplicate name in directory. (CIERR 906)


Notice that the error message does not differentiate between a GROUP that
already exists and a FILE that already exists. All it tells you is that it
can't build the directory entry using the name you specified.

By purging the entire account and starting over you removed the offending
file named /ACCOUNT/PUB.

HTH.

Doug.

Doug Werth                             Beechglen Development Inc.
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