Re: 4GL replacement for isql menus

In article <3200FE95.3C25@segel.com> Mike Segel <mikey@segel.com> writes: >You want to stop the nasty user from shelling out of an >application. Putting it in his/her .profile means that besides >having the above mentioned side effect, the user could always >comment it out and not have to bother with it. Not if they chown .profile and chmod it so that the user only has read permission. > >A better way, is to have the user run a shell script which exports >that shell variable in a child, then calls your Informix program. > Yup. Mike Hodges (mhodges@nando.net)