RE: ontape used in scripts

For the archive at a number of sites we are running almost the archive script you have listed - except we always have another enter in the script, 2 lines between ontape and EOF - and it runs fine. We are also running an archive command file on one NT (7.30) site which runs perfectly, set off by "at". Murray Wood -----Original Message----- From: Andrzej Piotrowski [SMTP:a.piotrowski@apexim.com.pl] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 7:19 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: ontape used in scripts I have a few scripts to backup my informix database. In script set as ALARMPROG in onconfig I have following sequence: . . . /usr/informix/bin/ontape -a <<EOF n EOF . . . and it works fine. Another script, that I am planning to put into cron, has a very similar sequence: . . . /usr/informix/bin/ontape -s -L 0 <<EOF EOF . . . but it does'n work, because, in this second case, ontape seems not to read this Return character before EOF. As I have notticed running it at command line, it expects hitting Return key directly from keyboard. Anybody knows what is going on? Thanks for any advice...