In article <[log in to unmask]>, Chris Barnes <[log in to unmask]> says: > >On Fri, 31 May 91 16:29:23 +02 Van Uytven Herman said: >>I have hooked up our telephone program now to listserv (Thanks to everyone >>who did respond), but since this program will be used not only by computer >>specialist but also by e.g. secretariat people, it must be as simpe as >>possible. Therefore I was wondering if there is a way to avoid using >>a 'special' character as first letter for the command name, because >>most of the people will remember that it was a command with 'tel' in >>it, but I am quiet sure that a lot of them will forget the / in front. >> >>Any ideas ? > > > how about a short exec (LOOKUP EXEC perhaps?) that issues a >'TELL LISTSERV /WHOIS' arg The command telephone is already on-line on our VM, we only need it on our listserv for other systems (campus and/or worldwide). So I am not going to write small programs for every OS in the world. -Herman- > >Virtually, >Chris Barnes x045cb@tamvm1 (BITNET) >(409) 845-8300 [log in to unmask] (Internet)