Hi Donna, Perhaps the techniques described in my Interex Enterprise Solutions article would be useful to you. http://www.interex.org/pubcontent/enterprise/jul01/04webix.html Best Regards, Frank J. Gribbin Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:59:06 -0700, Donna Garverick <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >hi all! > >i have an existing mpe script that knows how to find a >desired o###.out.hpspool file -- by parsing output from >listspf (and that involves a temporary file...) -- and >finally uses the print command to list the contents of the >file to a termina/lsession. > >that's fine given the script's typical usage. > >i'd like to develop a similar script -- but now it's going >to be run thru the browser as a cgi thing. i'm struggling >with how to extract this 'o' number from listspf because i'm >not having any luck writing it to a temporary file (or maybe >it's reading it back in....hard to say). does anyone have >any thoughts? maybe you've developed a similar solution for >another cgi script? > >i should add that it's *not* a $stdlist that i'm after, so i >don't think a jobcnt/jinfo combo will work. > >(btw, perl is an option....) - d > >-- >Donna Garverick Sr. System Programmer >925-210-6631 [log in to unmask] > >Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. >Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' >We are not now that strength which in old days >Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are. >"Ulysses", A. Tennyson > >>>>MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<< > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *