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- From: maint72@saad-emh1.ARMY.MIL (Michael Gordon)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: SQL Ace Report Writer.
- Message-ID: <9399@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 00:58:02 GMT
- Sender: walt@mathcs.emory.edu
- Reply-To: maint72@saad-emh1.ARMY.MIL (Michael Gordon)
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- Thank you all for your interest and suggestions. The following
- may help clear up some problem areas in understanding what I
- asked in the first place.
-
- But, first you should understand that I believe the Informix SQL
- v. 2.10.06 for MS-DOS will not support Ace Reports being sent to
- MD-DOS system programs. Some of my local Informix programmers
- have so informed me yesterday, however, if anyone has created a
- method or work-around I would like to see it.
-
-
- In article <9381@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
- maint72@saad-emh1.ARMY.MIL (Michael Gordon) writes:
- >Good Morning!
- >I have discovered a problem with Informix SQL v 2.10 Ace
- Report Writer.
- >
- >The problem is with Ace on the PC, in the OUTPUT block of the
- source code
- >the REPORT TO instruction works well in sending the formated
- text/data to
- >a "file" or to the PRINTER. However, the reference manual
- states that a
- >key word "PROGRAM" will send the output to a SYSTEM COMMAND.
- This should
- >work like the Unix " REPORT TO PIPE 'cat >
- /usr2/login/subdirectory/filename".
- >
- >THE PROGRAM KEY WORD DOSE NOT WORK AT ALL, NOT IN ANY
- CONFIGURATION I CAN
- >COME UP WITH.
- I've *never* heard of a PROGRAM keyword. I just re-checked
- the doc (2.10.06)
- and it says that "filename" or PRINTER are the only options.
- Is this Informix
- documentation that you are looking at, or some third-party
- doc?
- >Has anyone on the Net tried to use this PROGRAM keyword to
- successfully sen
- >the output of a report to a MS-DOS system command, .exe,
- .com, .bat?
- I don't think such a thing has ever been supported. Best bet
- is to write to
- a file and then use the file as redirected input to the
- <PROGRAM>.
- >Thanks for even reading this.
- > Michael S. Gordon
- > Foreman, Gyroscope Section
- > Avionics Division
- --
- Alan Denney aland@informix.com
- {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland
- I'm Pro-Anarchy... and I Vote!
-
- Alan,
-
- This PROGRAM key word is directly out of the Informix SQL v.
- 2.10.06 for MS-DOS, page 5-29. To quote the line beneth the
- heading "PRINTER"; 'program is the name of a system
- command'.
-
- Dose this not read as if 'program' means a DOS System Command?
-
- If "PRINTER" will sent the report output to the system
- printer, why won't other system commands work as well?
-
- I really don't expect a lot of positive answers from this
- message, because I know MS-DOS dose not work like Unix. But,
- thanks for trying.
-
-
-
-
-
- Michael S. Gordon
- Foreman, Gyroscope Section
- Avionics Division
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