Before Version 1.7 was installed we would modify the BITEARN NODESUM file to include some of our local non-ibm nodes. For example, we would add a line: GRUMPY MAIL.M NO US BITNET Thus, whenever a user from GRUMPY used GET to request a file, it would be sent using MAIL instead of NETDATA or PUNCH. When V1.7a arrived, the format of the BITEARN NODESUM2 file changed, and caused some anxious moments until we found that files requested from nodes that did not appear in BITEARN NODESUM2 were sent by MAIL by default. Will our local nodes continue receiving MAILed GET files without additional intervention? If not, how can we specify this as our default transmission mode, or specify that a specific node receive MAIL and not NETDATA? Thanks. * * Barry Krawchuk * Platform Network Systems * New York State Dept of Health