You're right, of course. I had forgotten that part. PROFS notes had no ability to execute anything. We've made so much "progress" now with HTML and VBS e-mails that I had forgotten how primitive things were in the bad old days. <g>
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Batch JCL on Windows/.NET ??? Charles Mills wrote: [CHRISTMA EXEC] > I remember it. It was a real event. I was working closely with IBM at > the time. I had a BP or similar IBM PROFS account. > > It was a Christmas greeting in the PROFS system that when you opened > it, it executed a script that re-sent the greeting to everyone in your > PROFS address book. IBM had to take down PROFS for a day or two to get > things cleaned up. It's important to remember that CHRISTMA EXEC was not self executing. It was simply a little Rexx program that started with some comment lines to the effect that reading this program was boring, but running it was more interesting. It looked as though it was going to produce a picture of a Christmas tree on the screen, but of course it also did the address-book-and-send thing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
