I'm unclear exactly what you're doing but the key to get what you want is to append to the output file(s).  Something
along the lines of:

	print foo;start=1;end=1 >> myfile
	print foo:end=-1 >> myfile

You might need a feq (file myfile,old -or- file myfile,oldtemp) but you can figure that out.  (of course if you do need
a feq, then you'll need to say ">>*myfile"...but you knew that ;-)    - d

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Donna Hofmeister
Allegro Consultants, Inc.
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> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jay Willis
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] Mpe: PRINT command to get first and last records of a fileset
>
> I have 2 command files, one to print to a file the first record in each file of a set of files (print
> !fileset; start=1;end=1), and the other to do the same for the last record in each file of a set of
> files (print !fileset; start=-1).
>
> What I want to do is to combine these two functions into one command file so that I can PRINT the
> first AND last records of each file in a fileset to a back-referenced file.
>
> Is this even possible with the PRINT command?
>
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