Pretty cool idea, but the value in TMP after execution is:

setvar remote_eof 14

Which, after you follow it through, is exactly what it should be, but that
won't help me either.

Ray Shahan

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans", John Lennon

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:43 PM
> To:   Shahan, Ray
> Cc:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] DSLINE IF
>
>
> Let us try ONE more time:
>
>
> Try the following:
>
> Supposing that the DSLINE to the remote machine had been done as follows:
>
> :DSLINE X=rmthost.domain.org
> :remote hello ....
>
> Then do the following:
> :Remote file x=tmp:$back
> :remote echo setvar remote_eof !![finfo("ZAP","eof")] >*x
> :XEQ tmp
> :if remote_eof > 7000 then
> ....
> ...
>
> That should do it!!
>
> Regards
> Paul Christidis
>

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