Re: ontape non-interactiv?

Carefull. The method used by Simon Barber (se below) doesn't allways work. Here's an excerpt from the faq (by Martin Andrews andrewm@ccfadm.eeg.ccf.org): echo '\\n0' | tbtape -s 1 | head -100 The head cuts things off when tbtape gets into the infinite "insert a tape and press any key to continue" thing. I have found that normal output is well less than 100 lines. This trick also seems to kill off the loose tbtape process too - but I'm not sure why. Of course, YMMV. One should allways read the excelent faq. Simon Barber <beaker@century.demon.co.uk> wrote: :Providing you can guarantee all the data will fit onto a single tape, :the ontape can be run from a script. The following example has run fine :on Informix V6 and V7 systems on HP-UX 9.04 and 10.10, run from Cron: : :#!/bin/ksh :export INFORMIXDIR=/opt/informix :export INFORMIXSERVER=.... :export ONCONFIG=.... :export PATH=$INFORMIXDIR/bin:$PATH : :ontape -s -L 0 <<EOF : :EOF :RC=$? : :exit $RC : :Note: the blank line before the EOF symbol will EOB the tape prompt! : :We now use a DLT tape drive, it's faster than DAT/Exabyte, more reliable :and can now store a massive 40Gb (after compression) on a tape. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org