Re: Printing (file io) from Informix SPL

Posted in 1997

Peter sylvester — Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:04:00 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

cvbryan wrote: > > Any thoughts on printing or writing data to a file from within an > informix stored procedure. > > Thanks in advance Its not pretty, but you could do something like: system('echo "blah blah blah ..." >> myfile'); system('lp myfile'); Note that each system call is expensive, taking about a 1/2 second or so. -Peter