You will soon receive a file  called UPD14A SHIPMENT which contains fixes and
a  few improvements.  Just CARD  LOAD it  on LISTSERV  and restart  the server.
Nothing else to do. For those of you  who asked, here is how to obtain the BIT-
EARN NODES file, maintain it, and generate BITEARN NODESUM from it:
*--------------*
BITEARN
NODES is available from  NICSERVE too, but the version you'd  get from it would
be at best  3 months old, so  *please* use Netserv. If you  never retrieved the
BITEARN NODES file in your life, here's what you should do:
 
1) Determine the userid of the contact person  for your node. A possible way is
   issuing a TELL NETSERV AT BITNIC  GET NODENTRY your_nodeid. The contact per-
   son appears in the ":contact" field of the reply.
 
2) Logon to this account, and issue the following commands:
 
    TELL netserv GET BITEARN NODES
    TELL netserv GET UPDNODES EXEC
    TELL netserv GET UPDNODES MODULE
    TELL netserv AFD ADD password * NODUPD
    TELL netserv AFD ADD password XMAILER NAMES
    TELL netserv AFD ADD password DOMAIN NAMES
 
    where netserv = 'NETSERV AT BITNIC'   for BITNET
                    'NETSERV AT CANADA01' for NetNorth
 
          password =  - either you've  changed it and you  know what it  is :-)
                     - otherwise it's your userid,  and you'd better change it!
 
    Important note: just because you're nearer  to CANADA01 than to BITNIC does
    *not* mean that you can use it.  If you're in the United States of America,
    then you must  use the server of  the United States of  America, period :-(
 
3) Go to the  coffee machine, watch TV,  give a phone call  to your girlfriend,
   or do  any suitable action that  will take at  least 3 hours to  execute ;-)
   Then come back to your terminal. Actually  it was a "repeat (3); until files
   arrived"...
 
4) You can then install  the stuff. You will get new versions  of the xxx NAMES
   monthly, and a VERSyymm NODUPD file. You will have to run UPDNODES to update
   your BITEARN NODES file with this NODUPD, each month.
*---------*
 
 To generate BITEARN NODESUM: just make BITEARN NODES available to LISTSERV via
a LINK/ACCESS in its directory/profile and do: TELL LISTSERV CMS LSVBITGN. This
should take about 5 minutes.
 
 To generate NODES FILE: link yourself to the BITEARN NODES, get GENROUTS MODU-
LE  from Netserv,  do "GENROUTS",  ENTER, be  patient, 1,  your node  id ENTER,
ENTER until it stops asking for update level info & suchlike, ENTER to get back
to menu, then  5. Then run LSVGNODE and  you have the NODES FILE.  You can also
use the nodeid NETINIT file as routing tables for your RSCS.
 
  Eric