General users I believe can only issue INDEX against a list catalog, regardless of the GET FAC you have set.

But you should be able to put comments in that file -- as shown in the example in the manual, you preface them with asterisks:

* 
* Files for the XYZ sub-project 
* 
XYZ.AGENDA 
XYZ.BUDGET 
XYZ.PROPOSAL-1 
XYZ.PROPOSAL-2 

and they show up in the INDEX output like this:

* 
* Files for the XYZ sub-project 
* 
*                                       rec
* filename      filetype        GET PUT -fm lrecl nrecs date       time
* --------      --------        --- --- --- ----- ----- ---------- --------
  XYZ           AGENDA          ALL OWN V   22528     1 2006-02-09 21:30:10
  XYZ           BUDGET          ALL OWN V     345     1 2006-04-04 12:23:43
  XYZ           PROPOSAL-1      ALL OWN V    9486     1 2006-02-08 15:37:55
  XYZ           PROPOSAL-2      ALL OWN V    9903     1 2006-02-15 10:34:20

Nathan

At 02:22 PM 3/8/2007 -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>I have an entry in site.catalog as follows:
>
>AUTOCAT.CATALOG e:\autocat\autocat.catalog PRIVATE(AUTOCAT) OWNER(AUTOCAT)
>
>My understanding is that this should allow list members to retrieve the
>catalog entry (get autocat.catalog). Why do this? We have explanatory
>text in the file that people could find useful. However, we get the
>message
>  You are not authorized to access file "AUTOCAT CATALOG".
>In fact, we get the same message for a list that has "ALL' as the FACs.
>What am I misunderstanding? Does the access control affect the Index
>command, not the get .... catalog command? And, yes, owners appear to be
>able to retrieve xxxx.catalog files.
>
>thanks in advance for help!
>
>Nelson
>
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