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

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 18:13:29 -0700

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@xxxxxxxxxxx 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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