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- From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: SQL Ace Report Writer.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.053743.529@informix.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 05:37:43 GMT
- References: <9399@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Organization: Enterprise Technology Center, Informix Software, Inc.
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- In article <9399@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> maint72@saad-emh1.ARMY.MIL (Michael Gordon) writes:
- >>>THE PROGRAM KEY WORD DOSE NOT WORK AT ALL, NOT IN ANY CONFIGURATION I CAN
- >>>COME UP WITH.
- >>(Me:)
- >>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?
- >>--
- >>Alan Denney aland@informix.com
- >
- >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?
-
- Oh, I get it. If you look carefully, you'll see that <program> is
- not listed in the Syntax or Notes sections. It's only under the
- Explanation section. It's a remnant from an early draft version
- of the manual (which starts from the UNIX version, which *does* support
- "PIPE <program>". It's a typo; cross it out.
-
- >If "PRINTER" will sent the report output to the system
- >printer, why won't other system commands work as well?
-
- The DOS version does direct writes to PRN: if TO PRINTER is specified;
- there's no program interface.
-
- >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
- >
-
- No problem.
-
- --
- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland
-
- "Platforms are built only for conventions to sit on, and fall into decay as
- of course when conventions adjourn." - Woodrow Wilson
-