Reading from Standard In/Writing to Standard Out? (on Solaris)
Kenneth Brody
kenbrody at bestweb.net
Tue May 11 18:34:01 PDT 2004
Tim Fischer wrote:
>
> I've got a situation where I need to keep a mysql database in sync with our
> FilePro database. Our idea is to use Standard in/out as a medium to
> transfer data. I don't know, however, to get FP to read to standard in or
> write to standard out.
Well, since filePro always reads from stdin and writes to stdout, I'm
not sure exactly what you're asking.
> Does anyone use this or similar functionality anywhere? Can you give me
> somewhere to look for instruction or assistance?
>
> Alternatively, is there a way to connect to a mysql server directly from FP?
> (I'm guessing no, but it can't hurt to ask!)
You may be able to write wrappers around MySQL that filePro can call
either with SYSTEM or interactively with USER.
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