Re: tbunload for Online 6.0

In article <9405111525.AA27678@alvin.180.2.22.3>, I wrote: > Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix > From: alvinkoh@pts7.pts.mot.com (Alvin Koh) > Subject: Re: tbunload for Online 6.0 > Organization: Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd > Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 15:25:27 +0800 > > In article <AAfuppjSP7@mcs.spb.su>, vadim <vadim@mcs.spb.su> writes: > > From: vadim <vadim@mcs.spb.su> > > Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix > > Subject: tbunload for Online 6.0 > > Date: 10 May 1994 13:46:06 +0400 > > Organization: ICL / Marine Computer Systems JV, (Russia, St. > > Petersburg) > > > > tbunload and tbload utilities for OnLine 5.0 writes and reads > > databases and tables only to tape. > > Is there true, that OnLine 6.0 tbunload and tbload writes and reads > > to and from files ? > > Lines: 2 > > > > Vadim Ketchashin, St-Petersburg, Russia > > > > > > tbload/tbunload can write to files too. You may have to specify the > full path to the file. I'm using Online 4.1 and 5.01. Alternatively, if > your system supports symbolic links, set TAPEDEV and LTAPEDEV in the > tbconfig to the link. Then you can point the link to tape or file > whenever you want. > Forgot to add that you first have to create an empty file before you run tbunload. Suppose you want to tbunload to /tmp/sample.unload, first 'touch /tmp/sample.unload', then 'tbunload -t /tmp/sample.unload sample'. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alvin Koh Internet: Alvin_Koh@email.mot.com Senior Systems Engineer, MIS alvinkoh@pts7.pts.mot.com Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd - AMK Phone: (65) 4862055 Paging Products Group Asia/Pacific Paging Subscriber Division --------------------------------------------------------------------------------