Khader Tarazi wrote:

> 1 - I try to build a cobol program that can open a database file and read
> it and save it to a text file
> its small program and very simple but i not now the commands that do it
> Can anybody write this program for me ?
>

Why not just use QUERY and send the output to file ?

> 2 - Are there a way to backup the data from hp3000 (MPE) and restore it in
> any outher operation system ,Like text files

Same answer as #1 if your data are in an image file.

Richard Palmer
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