My personal advice is you will save much time and money by utilizing an
experienced contractor on this job.  You will also learn fast by
'hanging out' with them.

If your not in a hurry, and you can take the time to learn.  I would
suggest starting with the Command Intrinsic manual.  Since you've had
previous experience with the 3k, it shouldn't take you long to run
through the section(s) on variables.  Initial thought process is to
think of them as freeform JCWs.

lb

On 27 Nov 96 at 16:01, Terry Prime wrote:

> Date:          Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:01:58 +1100
> Reply-to:      Terry Prime <[log in to unmask]>
> From:          Terry Prime <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:       output and hpdate
> To:            [log in to unmask]

> Help please.
> I am not a programmer and have not worked on HPs for nine years, but my
> first job is to make our HP3000/957 MPE/iX a paperless CPU as far as
> operations are concerned.
> One of the purposes of this is to make our unatended batch backup (using
> turbostore) not print out its listing, but to FTP the listing to a DECserver
> on the network.  This DECserver is used tostore all the backup listings from
> all our CPUs.
> However I have to call the backup listing by a filename that is obvious and
> I thought that if the filename was to contain the date of the backup as well
> as some indication to if it was a full or incremental backup this would
> solve the problem (especially with the retention of the listing).
> This is to be all automatic so i would have to include it in the backup
> batch job.
> If someone can give me help with using the variable HPDATE so i can
> automatically change the backup listing into a file name for ready for FTP I
> would appreciate it.  As yet I do not know anything about HP variables and
> will have to learn fast.
> thanks and regards
> Terry
>
>