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From: maimer@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Nbackup configuration file?
Message-ID: <27196.27596dc8@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 03:10:31 GMT
References: <2500@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <2500@cod.NOSC.MIL>, heflin@cod.NOSC.MIL (Greg R. Heflin) writes:
> Is there a way to get nbackup to read its parameters from a configuration
> file?  or put them on the command line?


It seems you should be able to make a text file with the commands you
need to run and redirect the input to nbackup from this file as in

			d:>nbackup <autobup.txt

since you can select Novells menus by pressing the first letters of
the menu choice.  I haven't tried this with Novell's utilities but it
has worked with DOS utilities that wanted letter-abreviated commands
followed by returns.  I have thought about trying to make a command input file
which would send the arrow keys, but I haven't gotten around to it.
One thing to remember is to put <return>s where you would normally put
them in.  Your "autobup.txt" (or whatever you want to call it) will
probably be a bunch of one character lines.

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