On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, mark landin wrote: > We sometimes want to change user passwords for, say, [log in to unmask] I'm a lazy > guy and don't want to type an ALTUSER command for each one of these users. > Using MPEX, I wanted to say ALTUSER TEST.@;PASS=xxxx. Well, you can't do > that (yet). Looking thru the manual, I see the %REPEAT....FORRECS command. > Aha! If I can get a list of the TEST.@ users into a file, I'm set. > > OK, so I do this (in MPEX, obviously): > > %PURGE USERLIST,temp > %LISTUSER TEST.@,USERLIST;FORMAT=BRIEF > %repeat > > ALTUSER !curruser;pass=xxxx > >forrecs curruser=userlist,oldtemp VESoft also has a product called VEAudit that will allow you to type the following within MPEX -->VEAUDIT ALTUSER TEST.@;PASS=XXX That is probably why you do not see this as part of MPEX. As far as redirected output from LISTUSER, I have had no problems with the following: -->FILE X;DEV=DISC;REC=-80,16,F,ASCII;NOCCTL -->LISTUSER TEST.@;FORMAT=BRIEF >* There are no NULL characters at the beginning of the temp file X. Regards, John Joerger Press-Telegram (Long Beach) [log in to unmask] http://www.ptconnect.com