Re: Another ontape question

<HTML> Hey, <BR>the following lines are part of an original scritps from Informix. And they operate finely. <BR>. <BR>. <BR>echo " <BR>" | /usr/informix/bin/ontape -c&amp; <BR>. <BR>. <BR>echo " <BR>y <BR>n <BR>n" | /usr/informix/bin/ontape -p&amp; <BR>. <BR>. <BR>&nbsp; <BR>&nbsp; <P>Ants wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>First you have to put the informix environment variables in your script. e.g <BR>INFORMIXDIR and so on. <P>For the ENTER, you may do the following: <P>ontape (your parameters e.g -L 0)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;&lt; EOF <BR>&nbsp;&nbsp; #empty line <BR>EOF <P>This will treat whatever between the two labels EOFs as if you are typing it <BR>on the command line. <P>HTH <P>Nien <BR>-----Original Message----- <BR>From: cjw@yang.interaccess.com &lt;cjw@yang.interaccess.com> <BR>To: insight@shabakah.com &lt;insight@shabakah.com> <BR>Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 09:23 &atilde; <BR>Subject: Another ontape question <P>>Hello there-- <BR>> <BR>> I am trying to put this ontape command into a script which <BR>>will run unattended. How can I get around ontape prompting me to press <BR>>the return key? <BR>> <BR>> I have tried echoing a CR and piping it to ontape, and tried <BR>>redirecting the standard input from a file with just a CR in it. They <BR>>do not work. <BR>> <BR>> cjw <BR>> <BR>>Christopher J. Wargaski; cjw@interaccess.com <BR>>"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." --Immanuel <BR>Kant <BR>> <BR>>Life is sexually transmitted.</BLOCKQUOTE> &nbsp;</HTML>