francis@cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) (06/25/91)
I've programmed FoxBASE+ on the Mac, and am now trying to write a program for FoxBASE+ from SCO on our Sun 4's. I'm not having any problems with FoxBASE itself per se, but I have a few questions relating to the interaction between it and my shell. In particular: I want to have a FoxBASE+ program dump its output to /dev/null, so the user doesn't see it. Any problems with the idea? Ultimately, this should be run as a nightly cron job; does that create a problem? If you look at the script that actually runs foxplus, it feeds it one of two options, either -H or -S. What exactly do these do? Does this relate to my question above, by any chance? -- R David Francis francis@cis.ohio-state.edu
alan@ahmcs.uucp (Alan Mintz) (06/28/91)
In article <CMM.0.88.677868558.francis@wolfman.cis.ohio-state.edu>, francis@cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) writes:
) I've programmed FoxBASE+ on the Mac, and am now trying to write a program for
) FoxBASE+ from SCO on our Sun 4's. I'm not having any problems with FoxBASE
) itself per se, but I have a few questions relating to the interaction between
) it and my shell. In particular:
)
) I want to have a FoxBASE+ program dump its output to /dev/null, so the user
) doesn't see it. Any problems with the idea? Ultimately, this should be run
) as a nightly cron job; does that create a problem?
It's not a problem with later versions of Fox+ (I believe they fixed this in
the first 2.1 release).
) If you look at the script that actually runs foxplus, it feeds it one of two
) options, either -H or -S. What exactly do these do? Does this relate to my
) question above, by any chance?
Hmmm. My current version doesn't do this (2.1.2). What version are you using ?
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< Alan H. Mintz | alan@ahmcs.mq.com | ...!uunet!ahmcs!alan >shevett@dworkin.UUCP ( Sysop) (06/28/91)
francis@cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) writes: >I want to have a FoxBASE+ program dump its output to /dev/null, so the user >doesn't see it. Any problems with the idea? Ultimately, this should be run >as a nightly cron job; does that create a problem? Nope. I tried this the other day, running an app doing: [Dave] /u/accts/shevett> foxplus trythis > $HOME/tmptmp Afterwords, I catted the file, and it had all the codes generated from the app in it. (looked like I was running this application *REAL* fast ;-) >If you look at the script that actually runs foxplus, it feeds it one of two >options, either -H or -S. What exactly do these do? Does this relate to my >question above, by any chance? Hmmm. Never looked it. Dunno. (anyone else?) -------------------------------------------------------------------- shevett@dworkin.amber.mccc.edu | Dave Shevett - Lawrenceville, NJ CSAccess BBS (609) 584-8774 | Keeper of yon FoxPro mailing list --------------------------------------------------------------------
alan@ahmcs.mq.com (Alan Mintz) (06/30/91)
In article <54@dworkin.UUCP>, shevett@dworkin.UUCP ( Sysop) writes: ) francis@cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) writes: ) ) >I want to have a FoxBASE+ program dump its output to /dev/null, so the user ) >doesn't see it. Any problems with the idea? Ultimately, this should be run ) >as a nightly cron job; does that create a problem? ) ) Nope. I tried this the other day, running an app doing: ) ) [Dave] /u/accts/shevett> foxplus trythis > $HOME/tmptmp ) ) Afterwords, I catted the file, and it had all the codes generated from ) the app in it. (looked like I was running this application *REAL* fast ;-) Maybe I'm missing something, but how does this create a problem? This is what he wants it to do (I think). -- < Alan H. Mintz | alan@ahmcs.mq.com | ...!uunet!ahmcs!alan >