Jim,
 
I tend to agree what Dave Waroff wrote in a seperate posting.
 
According to the Cobol Reference manual, file status 39 indicates a fixed file attribute conflict. Based on the name/extension, this looks like a bytestream file. You might get this to work by fine-tuning the Cobol definition and turn into a variable-length file ex. RECORD CONTAINS 1 to 1000 CHARACTERS.
 
It's tough to be more specific not knowing exactly what the file contains and how the records are really arranged.
 
Not sure why you are getting file status 14 when the name starts with a dot but it's definitely not the right syntax if we assume the file is called FILE.CSV in the JIM group of the JKP account.
 
HTH
François

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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion on behalf of Jim Phillips
Sent: Wed 2/6/2008 3:52 PM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] COBOL and HFS Files



I am attempting to open a file that exists in the HFS space with a COBOL program that I am writing.  When I use "/JKP/JIM/FILE.CSV" I get and error #39 returned from the COBOL OPEN statement.  When I change the file name to "./JKP/JIM/FILE.CSV" then I get error #14.
  
  Should I just give up and use HPFOPEN?  Or is there a way to make this work with COBOL verbs?
  
  Jim

      
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