Hi Bob,
 
Well, there may be two possible solutions.
1) use the outbound Telnet to perform the task using redirected I/O.
2) Randy Medd at Telamon <[log in to unmask]> wrote a "remsh" program to
permit Unix commands to be issued from MPE.
 
I've not tried (1) and have read there may be problems with this.  With (2),
I think (but am not sure) he contributed it to the CSL.  The only possible
problem may be concerning security.  "The term 'Unix security' is, almost by
definition, an oxymoron"*(Unix Haters Handbook).  Naturally remshd, being
Unix based, may require some serious compromises on any security mechanisms
you have in place.  Still, it sounds the best fit for what you want to do.
 
Regards.
Jim
 
At 03:33 PM 9/2/95 EDT, Bob Gerade wrote:
>I have successfully implemented Jim Wowchuk's MPE daemon program(MPED)
>that allows commands from a UNIX machine to be issued on the 3000.
>Works great!  Now I'm looking for a means to reverse this process and
>have an HP3000 program be able to issue UNIX commands on an HP-UX
>machine.  I want to have a job stream run on the HP3000 that ftp's a
>file to a UNIX host and then issue a command to the UNIX host to act
>on the file.  I'm trying to avoid using a UNIX cron process that wakes
>up periodically checking to see if the file exists.  Anyone have any
>suggestions?  My 3000 is at version 4.0 presently, but will be at 5.0
>within the next two months.  tks in advance
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