On Nov 22,  2:12pm, Ray KINGSBURY wrote:
> Subject: $OLDPASS Environment File on 5.5
> This is just a minor 5.5 annoyance:
>
> It seems that using $OLDPASS as an environment
> file doesn't work in MPE/iX 5.5 anymore.
>
> We have a bunch of jobs that build a printer
> environment file on the fly using EDITOR or
> QEDIT, then keep the file to $NEWPASS, then
> use $OLDPASS as the environment file:
>
>         :
>       /keep $newpass
>       /exit
>       !file envfile=$oldpass
>       !file output;dev=lp;env=*envfile
>         :
>
> This no longer seems to work, but KEEPing to
> a temporary file does work, so that's what
> we're doing instead..
>
>   (I'm not really looking for answers here, but
>    posting this in case anybody else is doing
>    environment files the same way..)
>
> Ray.
>-- End of excerpt from Ray KINGSBURY

Ray,

I tried to reproduce your results, but could not.  Here's what happened with
a little job stream that I wrote up:

 :tell craig.acct JOB is logged on.
 :editor

 HP32201A.09.00 EDIT/3000 FRI, NOV 22, 1996,  5:50 PM
 (C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1993
 /a
     1     This is a test just
     2     to see if anything
     3     is wrong with $oldpass/$newpass

 /k $newpass
 /y
 /e


 END OF SUBSYSTEM
 :tell craig.acct Finished creating $newpass file.
 :file x=$oldpass
 :listftemp


 TEMPORARY FILES FOR CRAIG.ACCT,FAIRCHLD

 $OLDPASS.FAIRCHLD.ACCT
 :print *x
 This is a test just
 to see if anything
 is wrong with $oldpass/$newpass
 :fcopy from=*x;to=

 HEWLETT-PACKARD 31900A.05.02 FILE COPIER  FRI, NOV 22, 1996,  5:50 PM
 (C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1990

 *200*
 WARNING: FROMFILE RECSIZE IS 80 BYTES, TOFILE RECSIZE IS 133 BYTES.

 This is a test just
                                                    0000100
0
 to see if anything
                                                     0000200
0
 is wrong with $oldpass/$newpass
                                        0000300
0
 EOF FOUND IN FROMFILE AFTER RECORD 2
 3 RECORDS PROCESSED *** 0 ERRORS

 END OF SUBSYSTEM
 :tell craig.acct All done.
 :eoj
 CPU sec. = 1.  elapsed min. = 1.  FRI, NOV 22, 1996,  5:50 PM.

Now this is just a *really* simple example, so I'm wondering if there's
something more complicated going on in your environment?  It could also be that
environment files are involved somehow to...

Let me know if there's anything that you can add to this.

Thanks,
Craig

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