jeff@swusrgrp.UUCP (Jeff Tye sys adm) (03/11/89)
In article <1005@uel.uel.co.uk>, vvk@uel.uel.co.uk (Vijayakumar Vijayaratnam) writes: > Does anyone know how to get hard copies INFORMIX screens , while a form is > being viewed ?. > > Like hitting CTRL-P for instance > > Any help would be appreciated . > In the Perform screen there is an option to OUTPUT the current record or current list (produced by a Perform query) to a file called: perform.out Problem: you must exit Perform and then print the file manually. Solution: create a shell script that runs in the background, waits for a perform.out file to be created, prints it, then either deletes it or makes a copy of it for printing again. I had to do that for one of my customers many moons ago. It's kind of kludgy; it would be better if Informix supported that kind of feature directly within Perform. -- Jeff Tye southwest!/usr/group The Southwest U.S. chapter of /usr/group c/o Copperstate Business Systems voice (602) 244-9391 ncar!noao!asuvax!hrc!swusrgrp!jeff swusrgrp (602) 275-2541
news@investor.UUCP ( Bob Peirce) (03/16/89)
In article <1014@swusrgrp.UUCP> jeff@swusrgrp.UUCP (Jeff Tye sys adm) writes: >In article <1005@uel.uel.co.uk>, vvk@uel.uel.co.uk (Vijayakumar Vijayaratnam) writes: >> Does anyone know how to get hard copies INFORMIX screens , while a form is >> being viewed ?. >> >> Like hitting CTRL-P for instance >> >> Any help would be appreciated . >> > >In the Perform screen there is an option to OUTPUT the current record >or current list (produced by a Perform query) to a file called: >perform.out > >Problem: you must exit Perform and then print the file manually. > The shell escape "!lp < perform.out" works just fine on our system. -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320 uucp: ...!{allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis, psuvax1}!pitt!investor!rbp NOTE: Mail must be < 30K bytes/message
rl@sssphx.UUCP (Rod Longhofer) (06/08/89)
I recently had a very bad hard disk crash on my system and had to re-install the INFORMIX for my unix-pc, lo and behold the first disk has apparently a bad sector. So i called the freindly :-( att hotline and was told i would have to pay to talk to anybody. (I have service contracts on my unix pc but not the software). I promptly hung up.. I will not be charged to talk to someone who will probably charge me for a new disk or product upgrade!! Could someone give me a DIRECT phone number to informix in calif. And possibly send me a note of INFORMIX procedure for getting a replacement disk. -- Rod Longhofer rl@sssphx.UUCP | sssphx!rl@asuvax.asu.edu work 602-961-1317 "DOS is a nice loader, for terminal emulation software."