On Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:08:40 -0400 Don Wiss <[log in to unmask]> said:

>Another person  noted that I  had two  carriage returns both  before and
>after my 73 equal signs, instead of the usual one, but I have difficulty
>believing that this is the cause of my problems.

If you  have a  blank line after  the equal signs,  the RFC822  header is
empty and you clearly have a problem.

>Is this  another situation where  a useful  capability has not  yet been
>ported to the non-VM version?

This has nothing  to do with VM  vs non-VM. You just need  to convert the
archives to the format LISTSERV uses, which is identical on all versions.
The REFRESH command is for file catalogs and does not have anything to do
with list  archives. The reason this  command is not available  on non-VM
systems is that non-VM catalogs, by design, do not need to be refreshed.

>There are  quite a  few commands that  have not yet  been ported  to the
>non-VM version,  and I have not  heard anything from L-Soft  saying they
>are  committed to  porting them  over. Is  it possible  that the  non-VM
>version will always remain a subset of the VM one?

L-Soft generally does  what its customers want it to  do. There are about
2% of customers  who want things like  EXPLODE, STATS and FUI  vs 98% who
want the things we are working on instead. Myself I haven't used EXPLODE,
STATS and FUI in about 2 years. This  is not to say that *some* people do
not have a use for these  functions, just that things are relative. Also,
you should  not just count  the missing  commands in STDCMD.FILE  as they
include  commands   that  may   not  be   relevant  to   non-VM  systems.
ONLINE/OFFLINE, for instance, while  potentially useful on other systems,
were  really  written  to  address  problems that  are  specific  to  VM.
Technically these commands can be ported,  but I have yet to hear someone
complaining about not  having them, as the problems they  address are not
present on other systems. Likewise  database functions are available, but
they use a  new, simpler syntax rather than the  DATABASE job format, and
thus a new command verb (SEARCH).  The commands that are actually missing
are EXPLODE/MOVE, AFD/FUI, STATS, and old-style DATABASE.

  Eric