Clarence wrote:
>Did the file "friends" exist in the main Arachne directory ?
>Did it have proper email addresses in it in text form with CRs (enters)
>and no blank lines ?

I hope you mean CR LF (this is a Enter in DOS). A teacher (who also happens
to be the admin on the university) said something that "in DOS they only
have CR" making it sound negative, too bad it's in Unix this is true (this
was during a course in C and Unix) ;-)

>I have used the @list method successfully, but only with list files I have
>created with an editor - I don't know what the builtin cliky thing does -
>so use the F4 or F6 key to examine your "friends" file. ;-)

Perhaps it's the empty line at the end (created by edit) that gives the
problem? What editor did you use Thomas?
//Bernie

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