Re: &^@#%$@#%$ stinkin' oracle7 database

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 18:13:29 -0700
Message-Id: <1084670009.15775.1947.camel@poirot>

Using cygwin won't help the situation.

The problem is that the binaries are linked with the std libs, and the std libs do not allow the use of pipe as the input or output file.

An exception is sql*loader, there's a work around on MetaLink for it.

Jared

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 07:36, Shawn Ferris wrote:
> Has anyone tried using cygwin? My guess is that this would work there.
> (URL Escapes me but I could find it if there's interest)
>
> For those that don't know, cygwin is a GNU environment built to run in MS.
> They've got everything from gawk to XFree86 to Gnome. (useable under most
> flavors of windows) I'm sure mkfifo is there.. if netcat isn't, I could
> give an example that works using rsh. (or ssh)
>
> Shawn
>
> >
> > On 05/12/2004 06:20:43 PM, Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:
> >
> >> It's quite a paradox. MS provides an extremely robust implementation
> of pipes, but does not make them available from the command line.
> >

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