On Wed, 29 May 91 11:20:37 EDT Terri Cameron said: > We have our telephone directory on an xedit file that our user community > can access through a simple REXX exec called NAMES. We would also like to > make that available as a DIRECTORY to BITNET. Please let me know if anyone > responds to you directly. > > Terri Cameron, Office Automation Administrator 2 points: 1) You should think twice about calling your REXX exec NAMES as that is also the name of the IBM NAMES exec. If you do use the same name for a local program, at least have the local program be a 'competing product' (eg. Have an exec called NAMES which executes LNAME). Other suggestions for your current program would be WHOIS, FINGER, &/or LOOKUP. 2) As you have no doubt seen from Mark Williams message earlier, there already is a local mod for LISTSERV called WHOIS. It would probably be a good idea to get that package and hack it to lookup your local telephone directory (in fact, I have those exact plans for my site...). Virtually, Chris Barnes x045cb@tamvm1 (BITNET) (409) 845-8300 [log in to unmask] (Internet)