Re: NewEra VCL/character and Background Tasks

In article <32261110.2E0B@cse.co.nz>, 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't speak for NewEra, but you get problems in 4GL if you don't have TERM set to something sensible. Might be worth a try. Cheers, Kerry S ------------------------------------,------------------------------------------ Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ v2.5 June 96 Quanta Systems, Auckland | http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/ New Zealand. Work: +64 9 377-4473 | ftp://ftp.iiug.org/pub/informix/faq Home: +64 9 279-3571 | ftp://kcbbs.gen.nz:/pub/informix/