RE: How are you creating accounts on RSTS

[Eric Thayer <eht@cs.cmu.edu>]

BTW, how does one create $ACCT.SYS from the MFD?

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rsts@mcws.net [mailto:owner-rsts@mcws.net]On Behalf Of Jim
Stallings
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 5:39 PM
To: rsts@mcws.net
Subject: Re: How are you creating accounts on RSTS


Correct... Alot of use are REAL OLD and forget alot of this stuff.  ;-)

Eric Thayer wrote:

> You can use $money to find out what PPN's are assigned.  $ACCT.SYS seems
to
> be incomplete.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rsts@mcws.net [mailto:owner-rsts@mcws.net]On Behalf Of Ed
> Tecot
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 3:09 PM
> To: rsts@mcws.net
> Subject: Re: How are you creating accounts on RSTS
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 12:03 PM, Alan Flippen <mailto:flippen@nytimes.com>
> wrote:
> >I've written a little program to lookup account names. It's called
> >WHOIS.BAS and it's on my account [1,53] on the sim. Run it (priv users
> >only) and it will ask you for a PPN; you can enter a single PPN and it
> will
> >look up the account name, or enter the word ALL and it will list all the
> >accounts in $ACCT.SYS.
> >
> >Now we just need to put all the accounts that are already on the sim into
> >$ACCT.SYS ...
>
> It looks like there's only two missing - [1,32] and [1,44].  I'm [1,44].
> Who's [1,32] - Ernie?
>
> And can I just use REACT to add them, or will that mess things up because
> they already exist?
>
> _emt