Greetings HP3000 List server group:

I was wondering if any of you have come across either of the two following issues on  your HP3000 journeys and might have a resolution you'd like to share:

1. We've developed a series of version control scripts between our production hp3000 and our development hp3000.   The core of the scripts is FTP.  One of the options we were hoping to add was a feature that would allow it's user to download the first 100 records of a file.  Apparently the ;DISC= build parm of FTP GET or the ;DISC=;SAVE for that matter only causes the FTP to abort when EOF is reached leaving us with a 0 record file? Anybody know a way around this.  Only care for an FTP solution and would rather not mess around Build since FTP (very intelligently) retains file properties from 3000 to 3000.

2. We've developed a front end for Suprtool that collects and logs all commands entered - I know this sounds extreme - but any ways. One of things we were also hoping to do was force online screen query outputs to a temporary file which would then be displayed back to the user.  Suprtool queries to screen display the field names and in two columns.  Attempts to redisplay a piped ">out" version of that file results in very messy mis-aligned file. Any CCTL or MPEX PRINT;FORMAT secret we can use to correct this?

Thank you in advance for any information you may have on these topics.

Jc Pineiro
Avmed Health Plan
Miami Florida
305-671-4920