Folks:

The prize goes to our own JWP of Norbord, who successfully steered me to the
obscure syntax:

!build tempmsg;rec=-72,,f,ascii;disc=100;temp;msg
!listftemp tempmsg,2
!file mpefile=tempmsg,oldtemp;temp;nolock
!echo access po-headers                  >> *mpefile
!echo choose po-no 'A00100'              >> *mpefile
!echo subfile sf1 include po-no,supplier >> *mpefile
!echo go                                 >> *mpefile
!echo exit                               >> *mpefile
!listftemp tempmsg,2
!file stdin=*mpefile

It seems that QTP needs or like the *mpefile with the ";nolock" setting. In
any case, I got the program to read my file as $Stdin with the following
provisos:


1) :QTP only, i.e. no 'auto=' or anything else on the command line

2) Embed the 'exec program name' as the first record in your $Stdin

3) If doing a "Choose" in the QTP, end the $Stdin command file with a blank
record, " ", otherwise it gets upset.

Thanks folks and JWP.

Now, we have got real problems as follows:

Your message dated Tue, 9 Mar  2004 09:55:18 -0800 with subject "Database
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recipients).

666 is not a good sign, eh, listers!



John M Penney
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