One for the collateral benefit list: Your example showed me how to do a programmatic chmod in BASIC. 30 R$="xeq chmod.hpbin.sys "+CHR$(34)+"777 filename"+CHR$(34) 40 SYSTEM H2,R$ Thanks, Frank Gribbin Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP P.S. Your porting work has helped alot. The members of the list have many talents. If each would invest a few hours a week, the cumulative benefit for the 3000 would be great. On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:36:21 -0800, Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >A slight variation will be able to read the spoolfile, but it doesn't seem to >be aware of when new records are added: > >:XEQ TAIL.HPBIN.SYS "-f" <Onnnn.OUT.HPSPOOL >-- >[log in to unmask] >Remainder of .sig suppressed to conserve scarce California electrons...