Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!francis From: francis@cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Looking for help with FoxBASE+ from SCO Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 16:49:18 GMT Sender: francis@cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science Lines: 14 I've programmed FoxBASE+ on the Mac, and am now trying to write a program for FoxBASE+ from SCO on our Sun 4's. I'm not having any problems with FoxBASE itself per se, but I have a few questions relating to the interaction between it and my shell. In particular: I want to have a FoxBASE+ program dump its output to /dev/null, so the user doesn't see it. Any problems with the idea? Ultimately, this should be run as a nightly cron job; does that create a problem? If you look at the script that actually runs foxplus, it feeds it one of two options, either -H or -S. What exactly do these do? Does this relate to my question above, by any chance? -- R David Francis francis@cis.ohio-state.edu