I've used Dave's method of accomplishing things like
this before.  I've used a our mail server to do
something like this before as well.

We're using Imail from Ipswitch.  It allows us to set
up an email alias to run an external program rather
than forward the mail.  So the process would run
something like this:

- ftp the files to the NT from the HP
- send an email from the job on the hp to the email alias
- the mail server will run the external program to
  accomplish the desired task.

At 09:44 AM 11/09/1999 -0500, Dave Knispel wrote:
>You might be able to use the AT scheduling command in NT.  We do this same
>type of thing, but not with Word.  We do the following...
>-On the HP build several files
>-On the HP FTP them to the NT server
>-On the HP FTP a control file when all of the other FTP's are successful
>-On the NT server using the AT command run a (DOS) batch file every 15
>minutes looking for that control file
>--If the control file does not exist, don't do anything
>--If the control file does exists, purge the control file then do our
>processing
>
>David Knispel
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Gary Pastor <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 9:43 AM
>Subject: ftp to kick off word
>
>
>> Is it possible to ftp a file(from HP3000)  to an NT server and have FTP
>kick
>> off MS Word with a macro to merge data from the downloaded file into an
>> existing document and print the new document. Must be completely
>> automated(No user intervention).
>>
>> Gary Pastor
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>