Re: Another ontape question

Please check in the faq for a better way to do it and why you want to use that. See my signature for the location of the faq. On Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:33:29 +0300, "Ants" <insight@shabakah.com> wrote: > >First you have to put the informix environment variables in your script. e.g >INFORMIXDIR and so on. > >For the ENTER, you may do the following: > >ontape (your parameters e.g -L 0) << EOF > #empty line >EOF > >This will treat whatever between the two labels EOFs as if you are typing it >on the command line. > >HTH > >Nien >-----Original Message----- >From: cjw@yang.interaccess.com <cjw@yang.interaccess.com> >To: insight@shabakah.com <insight@shabakah.com> >Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 09:23 ' >Subject: Another ontape question > > >>Hello there-- >> >> I am trying to put this ontape command into a script which >>will run unattended. How can I get around ontape prompting me to press >>the return key? >> >> I have tried echoing a CR and piping it to ontape, and tried >>redirecting the standard input from a file with just a CR in it. They >>do not work. >> >> cjw >> >>Christopher J. Wargaski; cjw@interaccess.com >>"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." --Immanuel >Kant >> >>Life is sexually transmitted. Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)