Re: ontape question

Posted in 1997

Doug McAllister — Fri, 23 May 1997 15:31:21 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Timothy Jones wrote: > > I know I have seen the answer to this, but can't find it...... > > I need to run "ontape --s -L 0" command in a script and not get the > prompt to mount the tape. I know not to run in the background, but > should be able to run from a script. > > Thanks in advance!!! > TJ You need to pipe a return "^M" into the command to handle the mount message for the tape. By-the-way running from a script is no different than running in the background since there is no tty attached to the process to handle the prompts.