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Re: Command file woes
From:
Kevin Newman <[log in to unmask]>
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Kevin Newman <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:13:20 -0700
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That would work, if I were just on one level, but I'm using the WHILE
command inside of MPEX and I was building the tempfile to feed to MPEX
so that it would loop and feed the FTP file into FTP.  I setup re-try
limits and pause times between re-trys.

Kevin

Paul H Christidis wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> How about the following:
>
> <SYS>:setvar count 1
> <SYS>:setvar retry 3
> <SYS>:echo exit > tmp1
> <SYS>:setvar line1 "while count < !retry"
> <SYS>:setvar line2 "run ftp.arpa.sys < tmp1"
> <SYS>:!line1
> *** EXPRESSION TRUE
> <SYS>:!line2
>
> File Transfer Protocol [A0008S33] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1990
> ftp> exit
>
> END OF PROGRAM
> <SYS>:setvar count 4
> <SYS>:endwhile
> *** RESUME EXECUTION OF COMMANDS
> <SYS>:
>
> Regards
> Paul Christidis

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