Overman_James wrote:
>
> You are probably being burned by the fact that File number ZERO is now a legal
> file number.  Initialize your file numbers to -1 (I think) and the FFILEINFO
> should then report the proper status of not opened.  Note file number 0
> was needed for the POSIX people I believe.  It is STDIN I think.
> --
>  James Overman HP Support Technology Lab  Roseville, CA

COOL! Thats why I like this list, anytime I need help with the HP3000 or
related things someone on the list usually comes though, thanks alot
James!

The explaination you have suggested makes sense. Last night I put some
DISPLAY's in the program to see exactly want FFILEINO was retunring. On
the 5.5 machine it always returns +0005, (same prog) on the 5.0 machine
returns -2768

So I am going in today and init my "VPLUS COMAREA-FILEN" to -1 and see
what happens. Man I could see how this could break allot of programs.
However if the reason is to better support POSIX then it is well worth
it!

Thanks again,
Michael Anderson.