Yes, your solution should work fine in the absence of MPEX - as long 
as you drop the ;keepamdates and ;pagehead parameters - which would 
be valid only for the MPEX version of the print command.

At 11:38 AM 2011-02-17, Jay Willis wrote:
>I want to append to a file (JSXF) the first and last records of each 
>file in a set of files (!fileset) using one command file.
>
>This is how I get the first record (using one command file):
>
>file lpb = JSXF,old;dev=disc;acc=append
>print !fileset;start=1;end=1;keepamdates;out=*lpb;pagehead;num
>
>And this is how I get the last record (using another command file):
>
>file lpb = JSXF,old;dev=disc;acc=append
>print !fileset;start=-1;keepamdates;out=*lpb;pagehead;num
>
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