Re: Help!! ontape -s in background
Hello Sham,
You might try: \\012 instead of ^M
The \\ means that an octal value follows, and the 012 is the value for a
new line character.
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Regards,
Walter S. Tyszka (wstyszka@ingr.com) * Standard disclaimers apply *
} Sham, Vaidya wrote:
} >
} > Hi,
} >
} > Although running an ontape -s archive in the background is not recommended
} > by Informix due to the fact that it may hang online if the tape you are
} > writing too needs to be changed. The reason for hanging up is ontape will
} > continue to wait for a tape change and when the time comes for a checkpoint
} > to be written, the checkpoint program will try to write out data to the
} > archive tape and that will then hang OnLine.
} >
} > However, if I am absolutely sure that the entire archive will fit onto
} > tape or I make sure that I am writing to disk with enough space I am OK....
} >
} > My problem is ontape -s asks for a return to confirm the tape is entered,
} > and waits for the very first tape, how do I enter the "Enter" keystroke from
} > a korn shell. The following script does not work and is a copy of the Joe
} > Lumbley script mentioned in his book for C shell. ( ^M - Control M is a
} > carraige return ). I am running OnLine version 7.12 on a Sun Solaris
} > system.
} >
} > # Begin script
} > ontape -s << EOF
} > 0
} > ^M
} > EOF
} > #End script
} >
} > Any ideas appreciated...
} >
} > Thanks
} >
} > Sham Vaidya
} > smvaidya@auto.rockwell.com
}
} Sham I use bourne shell instead
} I do it like this:
}
} ontape -s -L 0 <<!!
}
} !!
}
} The empty line in the 'here-document' (that is between the !!-pair)
} provides the Rturn to ontape
} It has proven to work in practice with online 5, 6 and 7 on IRIX, AIX,
} SCO and EP/IX
}
} Bye
}
} Gert van Eck
}