On Wed, 3 May 1995, Donald Timmonds Harrington wrote: > OK all you HPDESK wizards out there (esp. you HP folks in GB), is > there any way to set up a 'master' public distribution list for a > machine. We have seven nodes on our HPDESK system for different > classes of user. However, there are a few distribution lists that > are common to all classes. Is there any way to set it up so that I > don't have to log on as each General Delivery user to update all the > lists? OK, but my solution is quite ugly. First, create an area in the cabinet. I called my "temp distribution". All lists you want shared go there. You can share this folder amoung others so that they can make changes as well. I have a job called DISTRIB0.JOB that runs once each day: !job distrib0,myuser.myacct;outclass=,1 !setjcw quadyes 1 !continue !purge distrib2.job !file distribc.job;rec=-80,,f,ascii;save !continue !purge distribc.job !continue !purge temp.job !hpdesk > *distribc.job mailuser mypass cab open "temp distribution" list signoff !qt distribc.job l a f 'Subject: temp distribution' f 'Item' d1/*+1 f'temp >' d *-1/l k t distribc.job c1/6'd "' a c26/80'"' a k k temp.job:U t temp.job c1/2'copy from ' a c 40/80 'of "temp distribution" of fc' a k temp.job:U t distribc.job a.1 cabinet open "public" // co <temp.job> to last a last signoff // k distribc.job:U l a e !qt distrib.job f 'insert' co <distribc.job> to * f 'insert' co <distribc.job> to * f 'insert' co <distribc.job> to * f 'insert' co <distribc.job> to * f 'insert' co <distribc.job> to * f 'insert' co <distribc.job> to * f 'insert' co <distribc.job> to * d i'insert commands' k distrib2.job:U l all e !reset@ !streamx distrib2.job !eoj Here is distrib.job. You need to modify it to list each area that needs the distribution lists: !job distrib,myuser.myacct;outclass=,1 !hpdesk general delivery/iug/01 mypass <insert commands> !hpdesk yes general delivery/board/01 mypass <insert commands> !hpdesk yes general delivery/spc/01 mypass <insert commands> !hpdesk yes general delivery/hp/01 mypass <insert commands> !hpdesk yes general delivery/csl/01 mypass <insert commands> !hpdesk yes general delivery/misc/01 mypass <insert commands> !hpdesk yes general delivery/cmte/01 mypass <insert commands> !eoj -- john sullivan [log in to unmask] http://www.interex.org/~sullivan/ phone: 408 747 0227