On 23 May 2002 at 15:23, Mitch Rerek wrote, in part: > This is my first day on the list. I've joined because I have been tasked > with moving ListServ lists and archives (notebooks) from an outside > vendor who is using a VM system to an our Unix system. ... > This is only my first week of delving into ListServ and while creating > and managing lists (and list owners) seems straightforward, moving the > older archives has me a bit puzzled. LSoft has a file on their web site documenting VM conversions. When I made our conversions a couple of years ago, I used ftp to pull the list and archives directly from VM (LISTSERV recognizes the format and makes any adjustments necessary). My notes on this include: To run FTP FTP nodename (VM domain) userid (VM userid) password (VM logon password) case (means fileids translated to lower case) prompt (toggle prompts in case of MGET) get/put/mget ... quit Using this, I connected to a sufficiently authorized VM id and then LCDed/CDed to the (in my case) directories containing the list definition and then archives (the "mget"s were to pull back the archives. Note also the "case" statement, as LISTSERV on unix wants all lower case fileids. This was fast and flawless (might do differently if I had thousands instead of about 100 lists) except that very old lists with several hundreds of archive files would cause the FTP to fail. Because each file of an mget caused a separate connection and those connections took some time to close, we sometimes reached the (VM stack's) maximum concurrent connections. When this happened, I just broke the list archives into a number of mgets. If the lists are active at the time you are going this, there are other concerns. To address this, I "held" the list before moving, got the list operational at the new site, and then altered the old VM list definition to forward messages to the new list site (see the "New-List" keyword; the old list would contain just the new-list=, validate=, confidential= (if appropriate), and owner= statements). Hope this helps, wayne Wayne T. Smith Systems Group - UNET [log in to unmask] University of Maine System