Re: using pipe to export oracle on windows platform

When we used PVCS, many many moons ago, in a mixed windows/SCO Unix environment, all sources were stored on the unix box. We got a huge software package to maintain, appr. 500K lines of 'C'. What we wanted was to Set a standard header with PVCS labels in any file we touched. So we had a script dealing with all files that got saved. This script ran on Unix, in an infinite loop. It was just sitting there, waiting for a new full path filename appearing, to handle/process this file, if necessary. Guess what, the PVCS post-check-in trigger wrote the file-name to a unix pipe, even on Windows. We created the named pipe for this in a directory that was shared through samba. To prevent early EOF's happening, we had another script, while : ; do; sleep 3600 ; done ><thepipe> running, keeping it open as long as we wanted. I don't have a windoes Oracle client at hand here (lucky me ;-) ), but I'm getting curious whether this could make you writing to a (Unix/Linux) pipe on Windows!

Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 16:17, zhu chao wrote:

> Hi friends:
> We have to migrate a database on windows 2000 to Solaris, and to
> another location. So we want to reduce the size of the dump file via
> gzip.
> As windows does not support pipe like we do in unix: mknod exp.pipe
> p; gzip <exp.pipe >dmp.gz & and run exp. I tried cygwin. But seems
> gzip simply do not do anything there. Anyone tried using pipe on
> windows/cygwin? Or is there similar workaround?
>
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