On Wed, 5 May 1999 08:14:17 -0600 Ben Parker said:
>The Owner needs a way to verify all the current settings for any user,
>including if they have been set to one of these owner-only options.  The
>only way to do that now is with the QUERY command, which shows all option
>settings, and makes no separation between those set by the user (or owner)
>and those set only by the owner.

That would be nice if it were the case, but QUERY does NOT show all options,
which is yet another reason (of many) why QUERY output is a nightmare to
parse with a program or editor and is just plain confusing.  For example, if
you are set to REVIEW, then QUERY will tell you this, but if you are set to
NOREVIEW, there is no mention of the REVIEW status in the QUERY output.  In
contrast, there's an entry for REPRO regardless of the setting, for example.
And there is never an entry for last-access date even though many people
would find it very useful information.

So, my wishlist item is to have an easily parsable way of getting all this
information.

--
Bill Gruber
City University of New York