tbunload for Online 6.0

In <AAfuppjSP7@mcs.spb.su> vadim <vadim@mcs.spb.su> writes: > tbunload and tbload utilities for OnLine 5.0 writes and reads databases > and tables only to tape. > Is there true, that OnLine 6.0 tbunload and tbload writes and reads to and > from files ? > Lines: 2 > > Vadim Ketchashin, St-Petersburg, Russia It works for me! Unix is all files, or byte streams, and a tape is a file, too. You must touch the output file first, as Informix's s/w will not *create* a tbunload file. Here's how: $ touch asdf $ tbunload -t asdf dbname::owner.table Please mount tape and press Return to continue ... [cr here] Please label this as tape number 1 in the tape sequence. $ If you are doing this non-interactively (from a cron script) you have to provide the shell with some way of sending the Return. (As seen before in this forum.) BTW, We're using OnLine version 5.00.UC2 running on DEC 5000 MIPS box running Ultrix version V4.3A (Rev. 146). __________________________________________________________________ | Clem Akins Standard Disclaimers Apply | | Reynolds Metals Co. "Climb High, Cave Deep!" | | Alloys Plant (MS #59) | | 3509 East 2nd St Internet: cwakins@leia.rmc.com | | Muscle Shoals, Al Telephone: (205) 386-6783 | | USA 35661-1256 Facsimile: (205) 386-6831 | |________________________________________________________________|