On  Tue, 2  Apr 1991  12:56:38 PST  "Dwight M.  McCann" <9118MCCA@UCSBVM>
said:
>Absolutely correct! It was coded as  rscs = [log in to unmask] And, in the
>XA system,  we run RSCSV2, which  LISTSERV never heard of.  But how does
>LISTSERV manage  to send messages  in VM/SP4  with this odd  userid, but
>cannot in VM/XA?
 
I  guess the  userid is  truncated to  8 under  SP but  not under  XA, or
something similar.
 
>And  how  about  a hint  as  to  where  one  finds 'standard  value'  as
>referenced in LOCAL SYSVAR?
 
It means "a  reasonable default determined by LSVINIT",  from IDENTIFY in
this case.
 
  Eric