On Mon, 6 Jul 1992 18:23:19 +0200 Eric Thomas said:
>I am posting this because I know that many of you wrote EXEC/DCL programs
>to do various things to LIST files.
>
>In 1.7d, the LIST files on LISTSERV's A-disk will no longer be sorted and
>may contain blank lines, which should  be ignored. These blank lines will
>never be present in the files returned by the GET and REVIEW commands, so
>you  are not  affected  by  them unless  you  link  to LISTSERV's  A-disk
>directly. The output of the GET  command will no longer be sorted either,
>and  there will  be only  one blank  between the  e-mail address  and the
>user's name. REVIEW with the default options is mostly unchanged and will
>continue to generate  a list sorted by by hostname,  then username.
I'm assuming from this that the basic structure of the LIST file will
remain the name.  Lines starting with a * in col 1 are comments/keywords
and non-blank lines are of the format 'u@n Text of Name' with cols 81
and higher having special meaning.
 
In that case, users of LSVMAINT will probably want a 1 line change,
but I'll wait to see 1.7d before distributing it.
 
/ahw