** ** ****** ** ** ******** ** ** ***** ** ** ** * ** ** ** *** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** * **** **** ** * ** ** ** ** ** **** ** ** ** ** ** *** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ****** ** ** ** ***** ***** ** ** ** ****** ****** ***** ** **** ******** ****** ****** ** ** ** ** * ** ** * ** ** ** ** ****** **** ** ** ** ** **** ****** ** ** ** ** **** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ****** ***** ** **** ** ****** ** ** **** KY REGISTER **** KY REGISTER **** KY REGISTER **** KY REGISTER *** JANUARY 1991 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACF2 Coming to IBM 3090 CMS Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 New SCRIPT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Holiday Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Acceptable Use Policy for CREN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Some Compilers Removed from MVS and CMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187 SAS Tips and Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Prime Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Suggestions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540 Service Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744 ************************************************************************* ACF2 COMING FOR IBM 3090 CMS USERS In our effort to provide you with a more convenient method of system entry, we'll be converting to ACF2/VM during the upcoming Spring semester. This applies only to users of the IBM 3090 mainframe. ACF2 is a security system which will allow you to have one userid and one password on multiple systems. With the implementation of ACF2, there will be a common userid database shared by VM and MVS systems. So if you use both systems you'll only need one userid and one password. Changing your password on one system will automatically change it on the other systems. In anticipation of ACF2, you may need to make some changes to your password. If you have identically named userids on both MVS and CMS, your MVS password will take precedence, so it's a good idea to go ahead and change your CMS password to match your current MVS password. If you only have an MVS userid, you won't need to change a thing. If you only have a CMS userid, we'll convert your current password as long as it doesn't contain any special characters except $ or @, and as long as it's at least four characters long. If your CMS userid contains special characters other than $ or @, or is shorter than four characters, it's a good idea to go ahead and change it now. To change your CMS password, just enter PASSWORD and follow the instructions. We know you'll probably have questions, and our Consultants in 110 McVey Hall, 257-2219, suggest@ukcc.uky.edu will be glad to help you. Or you can check the online help files by entering HELP PASSWORD ********************************************************************* NEW SCRIPT AVAILABLE On January 2, 1991, version 90.1 of the Waterloo SCRIPT text formatter will replace version 88.1. The most important enhancement is a new library file called SYSCHAR which provides access to special symbols not normally found on most keyboards. The special symbol names were taken from the ISO SGML standard. Another important new feature is support for the IBM 3800 laser printer in page mode. This allows use of proportional fonts similar to the Apple LaserWriter. This new printer support is available on both CMS and MVS and is supported by a new PPSCRIPT command in CMS and a new PPSCRIPT cataloged procedure in MVS. These new features and documentation are described in the SCRIPT90 document available on the CMS MANUAL command. If you need to use version 88.1 of SCRIPT, just enter the CMS command GRAB SCRIPT 881 For more information about SCRIPT, contact a Consultant at 257-2249, 110 McVey Hall, suggest@ukcc.uky.edu. ********************************************************************* HOLIDAY SCHEDULE Monday, January 21, is an official UK holiday. The UKCC offices, Micro Lab, and Consulting Room will be closed. The Data Center and Users' Rooms in 103 and 111 McVey Hall will be open from Noon until 12:30 a.m. The IBM and Prime systems will be in operation, as usual. ********************************************************************* ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY FOR CREN The following is the revised Acceptable Use Policy for CREN (Corporation for Research and Educational Networking) networks, including BITNET and CSNET. CREN networks are for the use of persons legitimately affiliated with CREN Member or Affiliate organizations, to facilitate the exchange of information consistent with the academic, educational and research purposes of its members. All individuals affiliated with CREN Member or Affiliate organizations are responsible for seeing that their communities are aware of these guidelines, and that the guidelines are followed, both in letter and in spirit. CREN networks are, at the discretion of the institutions involved, open to use by students enrolled at participating CREN Member or Affiliate educational institutions. Use of CREN networks shall: * Be consistent with the purposes and goals of the networks * Avoid interfering with the work of other users of the networks * Avoid disrupting the network host systems (nodes) * Avoid disrupting network services ACCEPTABLE USE OF THE NETWORKS The following examples may help users of the networks apply these principles in particular cases. * Messages that are likely to result in the loss of recipients' work or systems are prohibited. * CREN networks are not to be used for commercial purposes, such as marketing, reselling bandwith, or business transactions between commercial organizations. * Advertising is forbidden. Discussion of a product's relative advantages and disadvantages by users of the product is encouraged. Vendors may respond to questions about their products as long as the responses are not in the nature of advertising. * CREN networks may be used for the provision of services which support the needs and purposes of the CREN networks, and for which a charge is made, if the network is an optional mechanism for provision of this service for which no additional charge is made, and as long as the use of the service is consistent with the bandwidth of the network and the forwarding hosts. Providers of such information may be non-profit or for-profit organizations. * Any communication which violates applicable laws and regulations is not allowed.** Users of CREN networks are expected to be responsible in their use: * "Chain letters," "broadcasting" messages to lists or individuals, and other types of use which would cause congestion of the networks or otherwise interfere with the work of others are not allowed. * BITNET files will be limited to sizes determined and reviewed periodically. (Note: The current limit is 300,000 bytes per file transmitted.) CREN Members or Affiliates are expected to take reasonable measures (given the constraints of technology and management) to ensure that traffic using gateways between CREN networks and other networks conforms to these guidelines. Final authority for CREN acceptable use policies lies with the CREN Board. It is the responsibility of member representatives to contact the CREN Board, in writing, regarding questions of interpretation. Until such issues are resolved, questionable use should be considered "not acceptable." ** In particular, messages and data sent to destinations outside the US must satisfy the Department of Commerce regulations (either be within the GTDA guidelines for information which may be generally transmitted or have the required license). ********************************************************************* SOME COMPILERS REMOVED FROM MVS AND CMS The following compilers and associated libraries have been removed from both MVS and CMS: FORTRAN H Extended (5734-F03) PL/I Checkout Compiler (5734-PL2) COBOL Version 4 (5734-CB2) If you have questions about this, please contact a Consultant in 110 McVey Hall, 257-2249, suggest@ukcc.uky.edu. ********************************************************************** SAS TIPS AND TECHNIQUES Problem: You want to determine quartiles and percentiles on a range of scores and use these values as reference lines in a graph. What technique should you use? Solution: First, use the UNIVARIATE procedure to calculate the required percentiles and create an output SAS data set containing the results. Then, use CALL SYMPUT in a DATA step to create macro variables containing these values. Finally, use these macro variables to draw reference lines in graphs or in any other DATA or PROCEDURE step where the percentile values are needed as reference points. Assume that a set of test scores is stored in a SAS data file named SASDATA.SCORES (a CMS file would be named SCORES SASDATA). The first five observations of the data file are as follows: The SCORE Data Set OBS ID_NUM NAME SCORE 1 1 aaron 88 2 2 abramson 100 3 3 atreston 94 4 4 betner 87 5 5 coones 94 You want to calculate the first and third quartiles and the 95th percentile. These numbers would represent the values below which 25 percent, 75 percent, and 95 percent of the data, respectively, fall. The UNIVARIATE procedure can be used to store these or any other percentiles in an output data set. The form of the UNIVARIATE step is PROC UNIVARIATE options; VAR variable-list; OUTPUT OUT=SAS-data-set output-stat-list; run; Other statements can be used with the procedure to weight the observations, produce subgrouped reports, and so on; see "SAS Procedures Guide: Version 6, Third Edition" for complete information. To calculate the 25th, 75th, and 95th percentiles, submit the following step. proc univariate data=sasdata.scores noprint; var score; output out=pcntiles q1=first q3=third p95=nintyfv; run; The NOPRINT option suppresses the default report generated by the UNIVARIATE procedure. The OUTPUT statement creates the output data set named by the OUT= option. The desired statistics and the names of the variables that will contain them in the new SAS data set are also specified. The resulting data set has one observation and three variables, as shown in the output from the PRINT procedure, below. 25th, 75th, and 95th Percentiles OBS FIRST THIRD NINTYFV 1 77 94 100 Once the percentiles are calculated, make them available to your SAS session by creating macro variables to contain their values. Do this by executing a DATA step, reading in the pcntiles data set created with the UNIVARIATE procedure, and calling the SYMPUT routine. The general form of the SYMPUT routine is CALL SYMPUT(macro-name,value); Submit the following data step to create three macro variables, mfirst, mthird, and mnintyfv: data _null_; set pcntiles; call symput('mfirst',first); call symput('mthird',third); call symput('mnintyfv',nintyfv); run; Once the DATA step has been executed, the macro variables mfirst, mthird, and mnintyfv can be used anywhere in the SAS session to obtain the percentile values. For example, they can be used in a PLOT step to indicate horizontal reference lines. The code for PROC PLOT and the resulting output are shown below. proc plot data=sasdata.scores; plot score*id_num='*' / vref=&mfirst &mthird &mnintyfv haxis=1 to 41 vaxis=60 to 100 by 2; title1 'Plot of ID_Num vs. Score'; title2 'Reference Lines at 25th, 75th, and 95th Percentiles'; run; quit; Plot of ID_Num vs. Score Reference Lines at 25th, 75th, and 95th Percentiles Plot of SCORE*ID_NUM. Symbol used is '*'. SCORE 100 +---*--------*------*-----*---**---------**--- 98 + * 96 + * 94 +----*-*--------------------------*----------- 92 + * * 90 + * * * 88 + * * * 86 + * 84 + * * 82 + * * 80 + * * ** 78 +--------------------------------*----*------- 76 + * 74 + * 72 + ** * * * 70 + 68 + * 66 + * 64 + 62 + 60 + ---+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 12345678911111111112222222222333333333344 01234567890123456789012345678901 Editor's Note: This article was reprinted from "SAS Communications," Volume XVI Number 2, Fourth Quarter 1990), the quarterly magazine of SAS Institute. Address subscription inquiries to Mailing List Coordinator, SAS Institute, Inc., SAS Circle, Box 8000, Cary, NC 27512-8000. ********************************************************************* PRIME BULLETIN BOARD 1. Why are the account names being changed from PR to UK? >>>The Prime account names will be changed so that we can have "universal" userids across all systems that conform to a naming convention accepted by the security system ACF2. The student accounts on the IBM will be changed to UK followed by five digits as well. 2. I thought we no longer needed accounting on Prime. We don't have grantors. So, are we getting them back and going to have connect and cpu limits reinstated or what? >>>There has always been accounting on the Prime. A "grantor" was a way to handle account creation and, for the most part, its function was replaced by an SIS interface. Even if account users aren't being billed for accounting, it is useful for administrative purposes to track account usage. It allows the administration to see how much the computer is being used, and to generate specific usage figures. That way, when we need new equipment, we can prove it. 3. What would it take to overcome administrative resistance to named accounts? UKCC is a service organization; surely if we demonstrate the utility, practicality, and demand for such a service, it would be easy for the administration to decide to implement it. So who does one talk to? Where do I begin? >>>Logon id/password conventions are being reviewed across both the IBM and Prime systems. Thanks for letting us know your preferences. 4. I think there should be a "No Smoking" sign put up in 103 McVey Hall. I'm tired of having to leave the room every time someone next to me decides to light up. If people want to smoke, let them go out in the hallway! >>>There is no smoking, drinking, or eating allowed in any of the Users' Room or the Cluster Sites at any time. 5. There are a bunch of idiots in McVey almost 24 hours a day playing some stupid game. They are loud and obnoxious and make any kind of work on the computer nearly impossible. They make it difficult to find a terminal, and they keep people with real business in there from doing what they have to do. Shouldn't there be rules against this or at least a time limit to keep these morons from hogging the terminals? It's pathetic. >>>Game playing on the computers is restricted to the hours between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. 6. Why are there no Consultants for the Prime system? The Consultants in the Consulting Room appear to know only the IBM system. All students should be given IBM accounts if this is the only system we can get help on. Also, why doesn't anyone know FORTRAN? If no one uses FORTRAN any more why are students forced to learn it? >>>There are student Consultants at most Cluster Sites. Common hours for a Consultant to be on duty are Monday through Friday during the semester from 9:00 a.m. until Noon, and from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. Common hours on Sunday are from 2:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. There are also fulltime staff who work in McVey Hall and consult on the Prime. Many of the student Consultants are CS majors, and they have not had CS221 or CS222 (FORTRAN). The UKCC Consultants and your instructor should be able to help you with any programs. Many engineering and scientific programs are still written or maintained in FORTRAN, so it's a good idea to know it. 7. At 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 8, room 208 of the Student Center was closed and locked. This room is supposed to be open from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Saturdays. What is the problem? >>>Room 208 should be open whenever the Student Center is open. We'll look into it. 8. If I had my own computer in my dorm room, would it be possible for me to get it wired directly into UKnet, so I could use it as a terminal without tying up the phone? >>>There are plans to wire the dorm rooms so you would have direct access to UKnet and all the services found on it. 9. A terminal in the Patterson Office Tower cluster site blew up. >>>Thanks for letting us know; we'll see what we can do. 10. The laser printer in 111 McVey Hall is omitting the center of the pages it prints. >>>When this happens, please contact a Consultant in 110 McVey Hall or an Operator in the Data Center so we can get it taken care of. 11. How are response times calculated for the UKCC Statistics for the Prime section in the "Register," and what constitutes "trivial" response time and "non-trivial" response time? >>>Response times are sampled on a regular basis as well as other system meters, and they are then compiled at the end of each month for the report. Trivial relates to commands like DATE, TIME, CN, and so on. Non-trivial relates to such things as compiling/editing a 500 line program and using PrimeWord. 12. I have spent the past 15 minutes trying to get a telnet port that was not hung. They are either out of commission, or busy. This happens at least once a day to me. Can we get some more ports? >>>We are phasing out ports and converting the NIUs from XNS to TCP. If you need more help with this, please contact a Consultant in 110 McVey Hall, 257-2249. 13. Why is it that sometimes when I use my modem the screen, once I get hooked to UK, is messed up? If I do a WHO or PHONE display, the names aren't right and things are in places they shouldn't be. If I hang up the line and try again, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't! >>>If this happens mainly when there is a lot of output to your screen, check to see if you have flow control configured on your PC (xon/xoff). Let us know if you need more help. 14. Could the mailer be updated a bit on the Prime to include users' real names next to them? I'm sure it could be grabbed straight from CHFN or wherever user names are stored on the Prime. >>>Names on mail headers is on our list of things to do. Thanks for the suggestion. 15. I've got the address of a friend I'd like to send mail to, but Prime rejects it everytime. It uses the ! instead of the @, and I don't know how to convert it. The name is !uunet!ingr!b17a!mapthom!thom. How can I change this so Prime will use it? >>>Try this: to uunet!ingr!b17a!mapthom!thom@e.ms.uky.edu 17. When I dial in and enter the window editor using terminal type 14 on an IBM PC with a 101-key keyboard I can't get either set of arrow keys to work. Everytime I try I get the same error, "not recognized." Should I be using a different type? >>>Terminal type 14 is set up to support the version of Kermit that we distribute from the Micro Lab. If you need a copy of Kermit, bring a blank diskette to the Micro Lab in 107 McVey Hall. 18. I have tried to send mail to a remote address from the Prime and the IBM, and I always get an error. Is cmuccvma not on the internet mail list? >>>We'll look into it. 19. I have looked in the SYSCOM directory for a C header file that corresponds to the file or on Unix systems. I couldn't find one. Can anyone tell me which header file I should use? >>>The contents of these files are specific to Unix systems. They are irrelevant on the Prime or are defined in other header files. If you still need help, contact Wayne Beech at wayne@ukpr.uky.edu, 257-2238. 20. Is it possible to add something to someone's FINGER entry that would tell what class they were in? Maybe something like FINGER -IN CS101.XX that would list userids of people taking CS101, section xx. >>>Thanks for the suggestion; we'll investigate. 21. I just noticed that the FINGER command has been changed so it screens out control characters. This caused my FINGER entry to look like garbage because I had control characters in it. I just want to know why this was done. >>>FINGER should filter out control characters. Terminals are very different, and you could garbage someone's screen with them, or worse, lock up their terminal session. 22. At the "Disposition:" prompt in the Bulletin Board software, it would be nice to have a command to reply to only the poster of the bulletin. This would be especially nice for Gripe. Many people that use Gripe either don't read the bulletin boards or read them but not the Gripe group. Since a lot of people reply to that group, sometimes the help never gets to the person that asks. What would be really nice would be to send a message both to the group and to the poster. That way they'd get it, and anyone reading the group would also receive the useful info. >>>Both are good ideas and are on our list of things to do. 23. I am trying to print things, and the PRINT command puts my requests in an S.dfr state, whatever that is. I'm having to use spool directly. Please explain to me what S.dfr means, and perhaps fix PRINT, too. Thanks. >>>Your print problem is due to you changing access rights; the spooler can't grab the file to print it. Change the access rights back in your userid to what they should be, and you will be able to PRINT files again. 24. What is the command to change terminal type so that I can enter the window editor if I am dialing in? I thought it was ED filename -W -TERM nn, but no go. Also do I still want type 14 if I am dialing in? >>>Try typing: ed -w -terminal ## You have to spell it out or use just the first letter. ********************************************************************* SUGGESTIONS 1. Is the "Kentucky Register" the only place I can get answers to the mail I send to suggest@ukcc? That is where a lot of queries seem to end up. I wish you could appreciate that by the time the "Register" comes out, it's too late for me. >>>We publish all questions that may be of interest to other users. We try to respond directly to online suggestions whenever possible. 2. Would it be possible to include recognition of the first name in the online campus directory? The directory was a really good idea but, if a person has a name like Zena Smith, you have to page through all the other Smith entries to get to the name you want. I think it would be more user friendly if there was a way to put the whole name in or at least the first letter of the first name. I really like the directory being online, though, and I use it a lot. Thanks for continuing to make our work easier and more fun! >>>Thanks; we're glad you like the directory. The directory does have first names. For your example, you would enter SMITH,ZENA on the Full Name line of the display and press the search key. You could also enter just ZENA to look for anyone named Zena. Press the help PF key when you are at the directory display for more information about searching the directory. 3. WHOIS often contains multiple UKCC addresses for an individual. This is confusing to people who may not know which account the person uses regularly for mail. I am wondering if it would be possible to include a field in the SHOW function into which a user could enter a preference for mail being sent to a specific userID when there are many accounts. If a campus standard could be established, through having the SHOW function query the person entering data, with appropriate accompanying information being circulated via the Register--you get the idea, perhaps! This would seem to make it much easier to know which account an individual checks on a regular basis and would therefore improve the probability that he or she would receive mail items in a timely fashion. >>>We strongly recommend that people only list one address in WHOIS, but people are free to list themselves any way they like. The problem is that WHOIS is organized by electronic address, with a person included for each, rather than by person, with an electronic address for each. We hope to improve this eventually. 4. I tried to send e-mail to someone in Public Relations under their userid, but the system responded that she was not known in the UKWang Domain. However, she does have that address, and sent me mail from it. I called Public Relations, and they said that that problem often occurs. There must be still some foulup between the UKCC and UKWang systems as far as mail is concerned. I was also told that I would be added to the Wang system, but I cannot identify that that has happened. >>>The UKWang domain is made of twenty machines (it's a network). For the purposes of mail it acts like one machine because all the machines have a common directory, but entries or changes must migrate from one machine to another, which shouldn't take more than a day or two. So, until the entry has migrated to the "gateway" machine it won't be be found in the "UKWang" domain. As soon as someone is added to any machine, they can send mail to the "gateway" and into the BITNET world. Errors can also occur in the directory migration. If you're still having problems, contact Pete McNaughton at 257-1994. By the way, each Wang system has a system administrator. If you're not sure if you have been added to Wang Office, check with the administrator of the machine on which you placed your original request. 5. I tried to FINGER a user at mars.njit.edu, and it doesn't work. That system has a Unix OS, so what could the problem be? >>>To get useful information from FINGER, a remote site must be running the FINGER server, and it must have access to the user information. Mars.njit.edu is apparently running a FINGER server (it answered my FINGER client), but it did not return any useful information for any of the userids I tried. 6. How do I get out of the VTAM session? >>>If you've DIALed VTAM from VM, use the command UNDIAL from the L screen to escape back to VM. If you've gotten to VM from a VTAM terminal, type VMEXIT on the logo screen command line. 7. I have an address for an internet site that I'm certain is correct. However, I have tried to connect to this address numerous times and always get a "cannot connect to . . ." message. Can someone check on this and let me know? Thanks. >>>We tried PINGing a number of off-campus internet hosts, including yours, and all of them responded very quickly. However, we got no response from your specific address. We tried from both ukcc.uky.edu and frm s.ms.uky.edu. Are you sure the IP number is correct? If you're still having problems, contact a Consultant in 110 McVey Hall, 257-2249. 8. I've been noticing some problems with telnet. It seems that whenever I am telnetting to a machine such as the Prime or the Sequent, I am not receiving all of the output sent to me. I will receive several lines of output, then the output stops and I will type something and then receive more output. This will happen two or three times until I have received all of the output which ends up to be about 30 or 40 lines. >>>Thanks; we're working on it. 9. Wednesday night the IBM 3800 laser printer "dropped microcode" while printing our production output. All of the printouts were completely unreadable. Some of our jobs send print directly to the printer and count on the spooling system to maintain it until it prints correctly. Wednesday night the spooling system and printers failed to do that. When such output is from a retrieval job then the job can be rerun, but when such output is the result of an update job then rerunning the job would fail to show what was updated on the original run. All computer work depends on mechanical and electronic equipment which is expected to malfunction once in a while. What is discouraging in this situation is finding out that, while the 3800 has been "dropping microcode" for days, users weren't warned about it. The printer should be fixed. If it cannot be fixed in a reasonable amount of time, you should warn users about the risks so they can take precautions to ensure that unreadable print can be regenerated. I am surprised at the handling of this situation because the UKCC has built a reputation for being very good about communicating information about problems, potential problems, upcoming changes, upcoming downtime, etc., to users. >>>We apologize for the problems the faulty IBM 3800 laser printer caused you. The errors were so intermittent that predicting failure was impossible. The manufacturer has been trying to isolate the problems since they first began appearing several months ago. As each failure occurred we felt that proper corrective action had been taken and that additional downtime would not be necessary. We will try to be more conscientious about communicating these types of problems in the future. 10. Is it possible to OUTPUT a reader file to more than one destination? >>>What you're trying to do may be possible but that's not the way to go about it. The OUTPUT command transfers ownership of the spool file. Spool file ownership implies one owner and one file. If the file originates at LEXVSSY1 perhaps more than one copy can be madE. Give US more details about what you are attempting--maybe we can help. 11. I want to set up a local listserv list for IBM PC and Windows 3.0 shareware/freeware software trading. Could you please send me the instructions for doing this? Thanks. >>>There are at least two lists already dedicated to IBM PCs that we re-post on VIEW NETNEWS. There are also two CMS disks that you can GRAB--PCNEWS and PCSHARE. Contact Bob Crovo at crovo@ukcc.uky.edu, 257-2258 for more information. 12. I just read in "EDUCOM" magazine about Kermit version 3.0 available for IBM PC. The Micro Lab is distributing 2.3x or so. Would 3.0 work with UK mainframe at this point? If not, is upgrade warranted or planned? >>>Brenda Ghaelian has Kermit 3.0. If you'd like to try it out, contact her at brenda@ukcc.uky.edu, 257-2203, 117McVey Hall. 13. What is the best way to dump a PostScript file to a diskette for use on an IBM PC compatible? I tried using ftp on the micros in the Micro Lab, but when I try to copy the PostScript file to my local PostScript printer, I get an offending command. When I use LWPRINT on the PostScript file to the Apple LaserWriters attached it works fine. Is there some character conversion going on that would convert some EBCDIC character to an ASCII when it shouldn't be? In the near future I will need to incorporate several of these PostScript files from the mainframe into an application on the PC, so any help would be appreciated. >>>Perhaps using binary file transfers will take care of your problem. HELP FTP BINARY. The other thing that may cause you trouble is the record length. PostScript commands are not restricted by length. However, sending them to the LaserWriter requires a line length of 133 or less (CMS restriction on printers). If your files (on CMS) have record lengths greater than 133 you should pre-process (or post-process, depending on your point of view) the files so that the record lengths are less than 133. 14. I uploaded a file from a PC to my account using Kermit. When I looked it up, all the lines had moved six columns to the left, and had semicolons in front. I can't find anything in HELP that tells me what to do. >>>Those are not really semicolons; they are tab characters. To fix the file, XEDIT it and enter these commands on the command line. SET TABS 7 EXPAND * This should make it look the same as it did on the PC. If there are instances where one line has more than one "semicolon" you need to specify more tab positions. You should know what you were using for tab positions on the PC. ********************************************************************* UKCC SERVICE DIRECTORY McVey Service E-Mail Address Phone Hall Vice President, Information Services Eugene R. Williams DPS128@UKCC 257-3609 Assoc. 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