Donna,
 Thanks for your quick reply.

> are you sure the spoolfile exists?  eventually, you'll want
> some error trapping associate with this statement.

I'm sure the spool file exists as I'll show you in a moment.
I took out all the error trapings. I'll add all that back later,
This is more of a proof of concept program. I just wanted the 2
or so basic lines to get this part of my script to work. Kind of
a bare bones version.

> did you explicitly build this as a msg file?
I'm not sure about that one.. I built it through redirecton of
the listspf output


 Here is what I get if I print the program to screen, attemt to
run it, then print the spfmsg file to screen, showing that all
is there and complete..
(SCREEN CAPTURE)
SGAII-HP3000:help fname
USER DEFINED COMMAND FILE:  FNAME.COMMANDS.SGAII

parm spf
listspf !spf >spfmsg.commands.sgaii
input _spf_buf <spfmsg.commands.sgaii
echo !_spf_buf
input _spf_buf <spfmsg.commands.sgaii
echo !_spf_buf
input _spf_buf <spfmsg.commands.sgaii
echo !_spf_buf
input _spf_buf <spfmsg.commands.sgaii
echo !_spf_buf
deletevar _spf_@
SGAII-HP3000:fname 7532




SGAII-HP3000:help spfmsg
USER DEFINED COMMAND FILE:  SPFMSG.COMMANDS.SGAII

SPOOLID    JOBNUM   FILEDES  PRI COPIES DEV      STATE  RSPFN
OWNER
#O7532     J6979    $STDLIST   8      1 LP       READY
JOBS.SGAII
INPUT SPOOL FILES            OUTPUT SPOOL FILES
ACTIVE   = 0;                CREATE   = 0;              READY
= 1;
OPEN     = 0;                DEFER    = 0;              SELECTED
= 0;
READY    = 0;                DELPND   = 0;              SPSAVE
= 0;
                             PRINT    = 0;              XFER
= 0;
                             PROBLM   = 0;
TOTAL IN FILES   = 0;        TOTAL OUT FILES   = 1;
      IN SECTORS = 0;              OUT SECTORS = 32;
OUTFENCE = 8
SGAII-HP3000:




 I hope that goes through ok. The formatting looks a little
messed up in my email window.
Mail me if you have any questions or suggestions on what I'm
doing wrong...

Gehan


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