What does on mean

Posted in 2004

Summary

Darren Patterson asked why Informix commands start with 'on'. Srinivas Kolli said it stands for OnLine. Gregory Williamson and Scott Kolaya explained that earlier Turbo-era tools were named tbxxx (tbmode, tbstat), and with version 7 they were renamed onxxx. Darren Jacobs complained about receiving the list messages. Answered.

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Topics: Server Administration

Darren Patterson — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 01:43:24 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Hello to all, Just trying to work out why commands begins with on? For example oninit, onmode etc. I figure its because Dynamic Server uses on (as per the nettype). Therefore, In the nettype the first part asks for on or se, now I worked out that se stands for Standard Edition but what does on stand for? Or mean? Any help would be appreciated. Darren

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SRINIVAS KOLLI — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:04:38 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

"On" stands for Online, Darren. Cheers Srinivas Kolli

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Gregory S. Williamson — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:04:08 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Darren -- I think that "on" comes from "Online" which was the successor (or at least a later version of Informix RDB) to "turbo," which led to the earlier generation of tools being "tbXXXXX" instead of "onXXXX"). IDS 5.x, perhaps, was where "on" begain to appear with the occasional tool still having the old name (in the early 1990s). I am sure a google search or perusal of the IDS site's Informix history would be more accurate than my perhaps addled memories. Greg Williamson DBA GlobeXplorer LLC

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Darren_Jacobs@carmax.com — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:53:28 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Could someone explain why I'm getting these? I'm quite familiar with what "on" means and I don't recall sending a question asking what on means. "Gregory S. ...." <gsw@globexplorer.com> Sent by: forum.subscriber@iiug.org 04/27/04 06:04 PM To ids@iiug.org cc Subject What does on mean [2897] Darren -- I think that "on" comes from "Online" which was the successor (or at least a later version of Informix RDB) to "turbo," which led to the earlier generation of tools being "tbXXXXX" instead of "onXXXX"). IDS 5.x, perhaps, was where "on" begain to appear with the occasional tool still having the old name (in the early 1990s). I am sure a google search or perusal of the IDS site's Informix history would be more accurate than my perhaps addled memories. Greg Williamson DBA GlobeXplorer LLC

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KOLAYA, SCOTT M — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:58:24 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Way back when Informix was Informix turbo (I think that was the name) thus in version 5 the utilities were called tbxxx (tbmode, tbstat, etc.) Of course version 5 was called Informix OnLine. It kept the tb in version 6 (I'm not sure who actually used version 6) but when version 7 (multi threaded model) came out the major change took advantage of getting rid the turbo thing out of the utility names and changed to onXXX for OnLine. -----Original Message----- From: Darren Patt.... [mailto:darren@trainingchoice.com.au] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 9:43 PM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: What does on mean [2887] Hello to all, Just trying to work out why commands begins with on? For example oninit, onmode etc. I figure its because Dynamic Server uses on (as per the nettype). Therefore, In the nettype the first part asks for on or se, now I worked out that se stands for Standard Edition but what does on stand for? Or mean? Any help would be appreciated. Darren

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