On [344,40] a version of ARC MAIL is supplied which is identical to the last release of Mark Johnson's. It is supplied in .OLB form only, and only for user convenience of trying to collect significantly important programs for managing a large multiuser system into one place. The sources are included here so that users not having past DECUS tapes will be able to get them. The MAIL utility is an excellent example of a user providing the RSX community with a very sophisticated and versitale program. This utility has been in active use at KMS for over two years. It is so good that the RSX11M PLUS kit includes it as part of its standard(but unsupported) distribution. I encourage users to build it and use it and just maybe to write off a short note to Mark Johnson to say 'thanks'. For use with our system accounting package we have made a slight modification to the way in which MAI... tracks down a user to see if he/she is on the system. MAI... first looks for the correct UIC. If the correct UIC is not found it scans the terminal UCB's to find a terminal using the correct account number. If the correct account number is found, that terminal is notified that a letter has been set to him/her. Enabling this feature is done by setting ACCNUM=1 via a global patch. THERE STILL EXISTS A SLIGHT BUG!! in this program. At the time that it was written, GTSK only returned the task default UIC(not the protection UIC). On a multi-user protection RSX11M system you should examine the code in MAIOPN.MAC to find where GTSK$ is used. Change the code which is getting the group and member UIC to correctly reflect the existance of the correct(LOGIN UIC) in word 17(octal) of the GTSK buffer. I would normally make this bug fix but I just found out about the bug at the Fall DECUS meeting. This tape has to go out today and I would rather not muck around with an otherwise terrific program unless I have sufficient time to test it. >>> >>> WARNING. The SLP patches will not work for systems supporting DECNET or >>> for which M$$CLI is defined because of the additional word in each UCB. >>> This can simply be remidied by changing the offset value in the slp file. Finally, have fun. Jim Downward KMS FUSION, INC 3941 Research Park Dr. Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104 (313)-769-8500 17-DEC-79