Frank asks:

> but what  i want to do is run a scrpit/ command file from mpe prompt,
> when i do this via a mpe file it runs ftp.arpa.sys,  but then just
> brings up the > sign and i have to hit the enter key to have command(s)
> run. is their any paramter that i can add to the run ftp.arpa.sys
> command to tell ftp to read the rest of my command file ? any info would
> be greatly appreciated.

What you need to do here is take the "guts" of your ftp, everthing that
comes *after* "run ftp.arpa.sys" up to and *including* the "quit" command,
and put it in a separate file. Say you put them in a file called FTPCMDS.
Then in your command file you would do:

:ftp <ftpcmds

or

:run ftp.arpa.sys;stdin=ftpcmds

HTH,
Patrick
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Patrick Santucci
Technical Analyst
Seabury & Smith, Inc.