Bob Brown wrote:
>
>      Hi Paul,
>
>      try
>
>      echo list !!gl_range1 !>!> !!_filename >> tempfile
>
>      this puts
>
>      echo list !gl_range1 >> !_filename >> tempfile
>
>      into tempfile.
>
>      -Bob
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> Subject: Any Ideas?
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> Date:    11/07/1997 5:18 PM
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> I'm trying to build, within a batch job, a file containing a series of
> commands for a utility.  The batch job executes a command file that performs
> some additional processing and also builds this file.  One of the lines that
> I need to place in this file is (without the quotes):
>           "list !gl_range1 >> !_filename"
> so my job stream contains the statement:
>           echo list !gl_range1 >> !_filename >> tempfile
> The above does not work, because of the two occurrences of the '>>' symbols.
>  I'm considering taking that section out of the command file and placing it
> 'inline' in the stream file:
>           ...
>           !file x=tempfile,oldtemp
>           !print out=*x
>           text !gl_spool1 >> !_filename
>           list !gl_range1 >> !_filename
>           list !gl_range2 >> !_filename
>              ...
>           !eod
>           ...
> but this means that I'll have to go around and modify a whole bunch of job
> streams.
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> Regards
>
> Paul H. Christidis

umm, oops.  This has not been my most productive day.  What the echo
command above produces is:

list !gl_range1 >> !_filename

not what I alledgely typed above.

Sorry about that.

-Bob
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