Non-system bulletins (such as this) can be submitted by any user. Users are alerted at login time that new non-system bulletins have been added, but only their topics are listed. Optionally, users can be prompted at login time to see if they wish to read the bulletins. When reading the bulletins in this manner, the bulletins can optionally be written to a file. If you have the subdirectory [.BULL] created, BULLETIN will use that directory as the default directory to write the file into. A user can disable this prompting featuring by using BULLETIN as follows: $ BULLETIN BULLETIN> SET NOREADNEW BULLETIN> EXIT Afterwords, the user will only be alerted of the bulletins, and will have to use the BULLETIN utility in order to read the messages.