Re: QUESTION: How do you file useful bits?
John Olle (olle@redgum.ucnv.edu.au) wrote:
: 1 How do you dump a screen to a file in informix?
Don't know
: 2 How do you e.g. dump a table definition to a file in informix?
dbschema -d database_name -t table_name output_file_name
orwrite 4gl prog to select info from syscolumns and output via report
: 3 Can you execute unix shell commands from within informix? If so how?
in 4gl run 'command' or run $command_variable
or
in SPL system 'command'
: Thanks in advance,
: John Olle
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