Need help with ISQL programing

Posted in 1999

Rex Chung — Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:11:02 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I am new with the ISQL tool (7.20). I am trying to create a user-menu with an option for quiting out to the shell prompt on a Solaris OS. Can this be done?

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Jonathan Leffler — Sat, 12 Jun 1999 14:15:24 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Rex Chung wrote: > I am new with the ISQL tool (7.20). I am trying to create a > user-menu with an option for quiting out to the shell prompt > on a Solaris OS. > > Can this be done? In either of two ways. The built-in way is the hidden '!' option which allows you to launch a more or less arbitrary command. If you still want an explicit option, then use a 'P' (program) type menu option, and specify an appropriate shell as the command, possibly with the -i (interactive) option. Normally, the question is "How do I stop people getting at the shell", which is much harder to answer satisfactorily. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>