Deleting Lines from a file.

I am trying to remove the first 39 lines from a file and redirect it to a new file. Below is how I understand the command to work and the error I get.

> sed [1[,39]]!d apextout2 >apextout

sed: [1[,39]]!d is not a recognized function

Hopefully someone can help.
Thanks
Jason

delete lines 1 thru 32

alternatively:

sed -ne '39,$p' fillename

Both worked great from the command line, but when I put it in a ksh script it hangs. Here is my script.

Thanks!

#!/bin/ksh

ls /tmp/PROD/tibapext*>apextout
read file1 file2 file3 file4<apextout

echo $file1
sed -ne '39,$p' $file > /home/indus/scripts/apext.txt

Got it, I had $file instead of $file1.

Thanks for the help.
Jason