Re: Can I use a pipe fit with DBSCREENOUT

In article <1993Mar5.023250.12310@glh.uucp>, hgary@glh.uucp (Gary L. Hale) writes: > I posted an article about two weeks ago (No response) asking if anyone > has any info on $DBSCREENOUT. I want to use the output > to go to a printer vice a file? > > Does anyone know what I am talking about ($DBSCREENOUT)? I haven't heard of DBSCREENOUT, what do you know about it? I have heard about DBSCREENDUMP, which is an undocumented environmental variable that prints a copy of the screen to an 'outfile' specified each time a '^P' is pressed. In your .profile should include: DBSCREENDUMP=./screen.out export DBSCREENDUMP After reading you .profile and while within an Informix Database, if you press '^P' a copy of the screen (almost copy I should say) is written to a file named 'screen.out'. Of course, while in the menuing system or in the interactive mode of a form you could print the contents of the 'outfile' by typing: !lp screen.out I have tried making a pipe out of 'screen.out' first: mknod screen.out p But, can not seem to link the data flowing thru the pipe to the lp. Can you think of a way to do this. Hope it helps you! Bob Beaulieu bobb@netcom.com -- ============================================================= Bob Beaulieu bobb@netcom.com San Jose, CA (408) 978-0818 =============================================================