"Emerson, Tom" wrote:

> actually, I just noticed a caveat on the FROMBYTE program:
> "...It creates either a fixed-record 80-byte ASCII file (MPE text file) or a fixed-record 120-word binary file...".  Since you explicitly want 256 byte fixed, this won't help.

lovely, huh?  some flavor of 'we' (3000-l??  sig sysman??  sig mpe??) asked to get tobyte fixed a l-o-n-g time ago....with no response (that i remember) from hp <sigh>

anyhow.....please check the following site:
<http://www.allegro.com/software/hp3000/allegro.html>

for the following software:

SSTOBYTE is an alternative to the MPE/iX /bin/tobyte program. (The usage is the same as /bin/tobyte.) It must be run from the shell, not the CI!.

Installation:

:copy sstobyte.pub.allegro, /usr/local/bin/sstobyte

(gee...what's the 'ss' for? :-)             - d

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