Rich Trapp wrote:

>  If you can modify the program actually setting the file equation, you
could 
>also have it do a SETVAR actualdev "xxxx" and query this variable in the
other 
>program.

followed quickly by Tracy Pierce:

>You could have your pgm do a LISTEQ to disk and examine that, but easier 
>(I think) would be to have your subpgram (mine's called PRSET) keep 
>user-selected settings in Environment Variables, making them easily 
>available to your other programs as well (use GETVAR).  We let the user 

proving that great minds think alike.

This would work, but now I have to modify two programs, and I was hoping 
to modify only the program that does the printing.  Not really a problem, 
but I don't fixing things if they aren't broke.

So, I am assuming that MPE doesn't have any way of retrieving the DEV= 
clause of the file equation directly (like through FFILEINFO), correct?


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