On Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:14:53 GMT Mike Paivinen said:
>Also, on 5.0, a byte stream file that contains text can be directly
>read and edited from most existing MPE programs. For example, a file
>created in the POSIX shell using vi can be edited by your favorite
>MPE editor.
Hmmm... Oh really?
(MANAGER.SYS): hpedit /etc/motd
HP EDIT HP32656A.02.20 (c) COPYRIGHT Hewlett-Packard Co. 1987-1992
THU, JAN 11, 1996, 4:42 PM
File: /ETC/********
First character of identifier not alphabetic (HPED 530)
File: //
First character of identifier not alphabetic (HPED 530)
Strike one. Well perhaps...
(MANAGER.SYS): file x=/etc/motd
(MANAGER.SYS): hpedit *x
HP EDIT HP32656A.02.20 (c) COPYRIGHT Hewlett-Packard Co. 1987-1992
THU, JAN 11, 1996, 4:42 PM
File: *X
Unable to open file *X (HPED 2520,422)
Strike two. How about...
(MANAGER.SYS): editor
HP32201A.09.00 EDIT/3000 THU, JAN 11, 1996, 4:43 PM
(C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1993
/t *x
*79*NON-MPE FILENAMES NOT SUPPORTED
Strike three for the HP side. How about CSL?
(MANAGER.SYS): quadt *x
QUAD -- JHK, Quest Software, KWS, Summit Information Systems, March, 1992
/T *x
Error opening file
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Error in procedure QKOPEN
File system error on data file
File system procedure FGETINFO
NAME CANNOT BE EXPRESSED USING THE SPECIFIED SYNTAX (FSERR 391)
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Well, perhaps that's cheating since it's a HFS name. Let's keep trying.
(MANAGER.SYS): purge motd
(MANAGER.SYS): copy /etc/motd,motd
(MANAGER.SYS): hpedit motd
HP EDIT HP32656A.02.20 (c) COPYRIGHT Hewlett-Packard Co. 1987-1992
THU, JAN 11, 1996, 4:50 PM
File: MOTD
Input records are too large (HPED 440)
Ouch. This is getting a bit annoying...
(MANAGER.SYS): quadt motd
QUAD -- JHK, Quest Software, KWS, Summit Information Systems, March, 1992
/T motd
Error opening file
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Error in procedure QKOPEN
File does not have fixed length records
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Well, actually I expected that one.
(MANAGER.SYS): editor
HP32201A.09.00 EDIT/3000 THU, JAN 11, 1996, 4:53 PM
(C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1993
/t motd
FILE UNNUMBERED
***WARNING*** RECORD SIZE TRUNCATED TO 255 BYTES.
/k motd2,unn
/e
END OF SUBSYSTEM
Hurray! Now I can edit bytestream files (or can I?)
(MANAGER.SYS): listfile motd@,2
ACCOUNT= SYS GROUP= MANAGER
FILENAME CODE ------------LOGICAL RECORD----------- ----SPACE----
SIZE TYP EOF LIMIT R/B SECTORS #X MX
MOTD 1B BA 271 2147483647 1 16 1 *
MOTD2 1276B VA 8 1 1 16 1 2
As you can see, the adventure continues.
Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
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