Re: NewEra VCL/character and Background Tasks

Mathew Dredge <mathewd@cse.co.nz> wrote: :I have written a couple of programs, which run on sun boxes, I have :used NewEra & VCL/Character because we do not have any X terminals :connected. :the main problem is that making the applications run without a :connection :to a terminal is impossable, at the moment one of these applicaitons is :running under cron, with a set of scripts which sets it up to use the :console when it runs, thus any person using the console gets a nasty :screen clear when the app runs. :Does anyone know of a way in which I can get these applicaitons (which :under normal operaton require no screen input or output) to run without :a connection to a terminal.. Can Informix possibly have made something as stupid as this? Well if this is the case someone mentioned a program I think was called expect some time ago, that can be used to fool your program into believing it's connected to a terminal. May be that can help you. I don't know where you can get hold of it, but probably in some library on the net. In a reply Bob Leurck <rjleurck@starnetinc.com> wrote: :The Current Implementation of Application Partitioning :suffers from the same problem. Can this possibly be true? A partition is only some objects that run on another machine. How can such objects require a terminal? Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company