Hi, > I am trying to create a 2 line indirect file for our > incremental online > Sunday backup. This is run from the standalone Saturday backup. > .... > I know that >> is supposed to append the line so you can > create a multi > line file but for some reason this does not work, I always > end up with a > single line file. What am I doing wrong? It seems to work as desired here: [1] BUILD.STEVED:lft TEMPORARY FILES FOR STEVED.STEVED,BUILD $OLDPASS.BUILD.STEVED [1] BUILD.STEVED:print ddfs1 ^ NONEXISTENT PERMANENT FILE (FSERR 52) The PRINT command failed. (CIERR 9080) [1] BUILD.STEVED:print tempx SETVAR DATE,"!HPMONTH/!HPDATE/!HPYEAR" SETVAR NEW,"@[log in to unmask]@[log in to unmask]@.@3000@;directory;inter;progress=3" SETVAR NEW1,";compress=high;date>=!DATE" ECHO !NEW!NEW1>DDFS1 ECHO ;ONLINE=START >>DDFS1 [1] BUILD.STEVED:xeq tempx [1] BUILD.STEVED:lft TEMPORARY FILES FOR STEVED.STEVED,BUILD $OLDPASS.BUILD.STEVED DDFS1.BUILD.STEVED [1] BUILD.STEVED:listftemp ddfs1,3 TEMPORARY FILES FOR STEVED.STEVED,BUILD ******************** TEMPORARY FILE: DDFS1.BUILD.STEVED FILE CODE : 0 FOPTIONS: ASCII,VARIABLE,NOCCTL,STD BLK FACTOR: 1 CREATOR : STEVED.STEVED REC SIZE: 256(BYTES) LOCKWORD: BLK SIZE: 260(BYTES) SECURITY--READ : ANY EXT SIZE: 0(SECT) WRITE : ANY NUM REC: 2 APPEND : ANY NUM SEC: 16 LOCK : ANY NUM EXT: 1 EXECUTE : ANY MAX REC: 10000 **SECURITY IS ON FLAGS : NO ACCESSORS NUM LABELS: 0 CREATED : SUN, FEB 21, 1999, 4:42 PM MAX LABELS: 0 MODIFIED: SUN, FEB 21, 1999, 4:42 PM DISC DEV #: 13 ACCESSED: SUN, FEB 21, 1999, 4:42 PM SEC OFFSET: 0 LABEL ADDR: $000000E1.$000CB120 VOLCLASS : USER:DISC [1] BUILD.STEVED:print ddfs1 @[log in to unmask]@[log in to unmask]@.@3000@;directory;inter;progress=3;compress=high;date>=2/21/99 ;ONLINE=START [1] BUILD.STEVED: Steve Dirickson WestWin Consulting (360) 598-6111 [log in to unmask]