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From: alan@ahmcs.uucp (Alan Mintz)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Looking for help with FoxBASE+ from SCO
Message-ID: <223@ahmcs.uucp>
Date: 27 Jun 91 21:09:39 GMT
References: <CMM.0.88.677868558.francis@wolfman.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <CMM.0.88.677868558.francis@wolfman.cis.ohio-state.edu>, francis@cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) writes:
) 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?

It's not a problem with later versions of Fox+ (I believe they fixed this in
the first 2.1 release).

) 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?

Hmmm. My current version doesn't do this (2.1.2). What version are you using ?
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