Aha! Paul, that does work!  Dummy me forgot to look at the value in the var
remote_eof *after* the XEQ of TMP.  Thanks!

Ray Shahan

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans", John Lennon

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:43 PM
> To:   Shahan, Ray
> Cc:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] DSLINE IF
>
>
> Let us try ONE more time:
>
>
> Try the following:
>
> Supposing that the DSLINE to the remote machine had been done as follows:
>
> :DSLINE X=rmthost.domain.org
> :remote hello ....
>
> Then do the following:
> :Remote file x=tmp:$back
> :remote echo setvar remote_eof !![finfo("ZAP","eof")] >*x
> :XEQ tmp
> :if remote_eof > 7000 then
> ....
> ...
>
> That should do it!!
>
> Regards
> Paul Christidis
>

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