Bob,

I don't think you can 'access' MPE/iX temporary files from within the posix
shell.  You can, however, perform the 'append' operation without entering
the posix shell:

Suppose you already have a temporary file "tempfl".  Then in order to
append to it the 'permanent' file "ffile" do the following:

      :print FFILE;page=0 >> TEMPFL

Regards
Paul Christidis




Is there a way to use the cat command to append an existing file to the end
of a temporary file?

I have a permanent file that I'm trying to append to a temp file like this:

cat FFILE >> TEMPFL

it does not seem to append to the MPE/iX file once I leave the shell.

Is there a way to do this?

I'm on 6.0

thanks, bob

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