ries@arcturus (Marc Ries) (06/10/89)
[If you don't work for SYBASE or know it, you might want to hit "n" now]
Is there any way to pass an argument to a SYBASE
APT-Form via a command-line argument (something like
what Informix [with which I have some experience]
allows)?
Here's my problem:
I have a custom C program (non APT-Form). At some
point, I would like to take a specific (variable)
piece of information and use it to search the
database to find the information (and related info.)
and present the user with an APT-Form to look
at/modify the retrieved data.
Ideally, I would like to do something like:
sprintf(buffer, "aptexec %s", my_search_criteria);
system|fork|exec(buffer);
APTEXEC doesn't allow arguments.
The work-around suggestion appears to be to
force-feed isql to create a temporary table to
(uniquely) store my_search_criteria argument, and
then have a stored procedure read that table and use
its contents to load the form. Jeez!
Marc Ries
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