BITNET Tools, Utilities, Broadcast GRAB and listserv PUNCH tools Joe Meadows's BITNET tools (LPUNCH and GRAB) These are some simple BITNET tools. GRAB is an example program that captures broadcast messages and simply outputs them to SYS$OUTPUT. This may sound stupid, but it actually works out well, as you can then say things like: SPAWN/NOWAIT/OUTPUT=trapped.messages RUN GRAB This will cause all broadcast messages (^T, New Mail, BITNET messages) to be copied to a file 'trapped.messages'. Once you stop the subprocess you can do anything you like with this file. LPUNCH is a program that converts files in listserv punch format. It accepts a list of wildcarded filenames, and converts the files that are in lpunch format. You must do a SET COMMAND LPUNCH, after appropriate editting of LPUNCH.CLD. LPUNCH accepts two qualifiers, /TRIM, which trims trailing whitespace, and /ORIGINAL, which signifies that the output file name is to be the same as the input file name, rather than what is specified in the file according to the listserv header info.