>Hi, I'm very confuse, I always a problem sending a command job to listserv
>without having a probleme for exaple I'm sending this :
>
>If I send that I'm going yo have for error: Unknown command - "DBMS=YES"
>I made it work before but everytime I need to test I always have the ssame
>issues , can some one can supply me with the right format or tell me what
>wrong in my format. I'm using a DB to get my people to send they email, in
>different format (HTML , TEXT) and I want to put AOL later.THx

The problem is that this command all has to be on one line:

>DISTRIBUTE MAIL-MERGE PW=gabouer DBMS=YES(EMAIL=SenderAddress)
>[log in to unmask]

It sounds like it is being split onto two separate lines:

>DISTRIBUTE MAIL-MERGE PW=gabouer

and

>DBMS=YES(EMAIL=SenderAddress) [log in to unmask]

which LISTSERV then tries to interpret as two separate commands.

You can use the 'continuation card' syntax described at the beginning 
of Chapter 6 of the Site Manager's Manual to get around this problem:

// DISTRIBUTE MAIL-MERGE PW=xxxxxx ,
DBMS=YES(EMAIL=... etc ...

The '//' and ',' on the first line tell LISTSERV to consider the 
second line a continuation of the first.  Both the space after the 
'//' and the space before the final ',' on the first line are 
required for this to work.
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