Chuck,

>I need a way to easily move an entire group of MPE text files to a posix
>directory in bytestream format, and then back again at a later time.

In the Shell, I'd try something similar to...

  cd /ACCT/GRP; for f in *; do; tobyte -at $f /hfs/dir/$f; done

and similar construct for getting the other way.

This might cause problems if the number and/or length of the filenames
is very large and causes some trouble for the * expansion in the "for"
command. In that case one might try something based on xargs instead.

A command file using LISTFILE > $NEWPASS and looping through $OLDPASS
should also be possible, however it would probably be much more typing,
so I'd only consider it, if the Shell approach does not work well.

Lars.


PS: Okay, if I were curious enough about the MPE approach, I'd try...

: print > foreach
parm doWhat="showvar s,f"
setvar n finfo(hpstdin,"eof")
setvar k 1
while k <= n do
  input s
  setvar f word(s,"/",4)
  !doWhat
  setvar k k+1
endwhile
:eod

: print > doToByte
xeq /bin/tobyte "-at !s /hfs/dir/!f"
:eod

: listfile /ACCT/GRP/@ ,6 > $oldpass
: foreach < $oldpass
: foreach < $oldpass doToByte

Notice that the above is totally untested, pure "think pink" and non-MPEX.