Re: New engines lack character based tools

mudshark@mindspring.com (John Morgan) writes: > On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 13:16:11 GMT, mudshark@mindspring.com (John > Morgan) wrote: > > [snip] > >Being a recent convert to Informix I was stunned to find that there is > >_NO_ command line SQL tool! All that is available is in dbaccess > [snip] [more snip] > The thing I _don't_ like about the "echo <select foo> | dbaccess" type > of command line statement is that I have no interactive transaction > control. When diagnosing and fixing db problems, this is critical. With isqlperl (the interface to Informix databases for perl 4, mostly obsoleted by DBI/DBD now) there is distributed a utility called 'sql'. This is a just what you would want. I guess it would not take too much effort to port it to DBI/DBD-Informix. And, of course, throw in some readline-stuff. That would be nice. -- 'yvind Gjerstad Systems dept Tollpost-Globe AS N-6301 'ndalsnes/Norway E-mail: ogj@it.tollpost.no Phone: +47 7122 6663 Fax: +47 7122 6694