[log in to unmask] (Mark Ranft) wrote: >A programmer just stopped by my office with this >senario. > >! copy filea,fileb >! >!pause 30 >! suprtool > i filec > o fileb,erase > x > exit >! > >Upon executing, SUPRTOOL complained about the >non-existance of fileb. > Mark, the only scenario I can think of to explain this is that someone/somejob is purging fileb during the 30 second pause. I've never heard of MPE requiring extra time to complete a copy command. /paul -- +--------------------------------+--------------------------+ | Paul Gobes, Tech Support Mgr. | Robelle Consulting Ltd. | | [log in to unmask] | Phone:(800) 561-8311 | | http://www.robelle.com/~paul | Fax: (604) 582-1799 | +--------------------------------+--------------------------+