Reading from Standard In/Writing to Standard Out? (on Solaris)

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[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Tim Fischer
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:52 AM
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Subject: RE: Reading from Standard In/Writing to Standard Out? (on Solaris)

I'll try to answer everyone's questions at once here.

1) I cannot/will not use Windows.  I'm running FilePro on Solaris and mysql on a
FreeBSD box.  We have recently invested a TON of money (it almost made me sick!)
towards a truly amazing Sun/Solaris setup and I think the owner of my company
would kill me if I even came relatively close to mentioning getting away from
Sun.  :)

2) I need to be able to update in FilePro as well as in mysql (mostly web).
Therefore, this needs to be on a record by record basis.

3) Jay was exactly right in his explanation of my first post.
(Unfortunately, he said I can't do it!)

To give a little more detail to the situation, I have approximately 499 fields
that need to be kept up to date.  (Some of those are not needed, but we may end
up just setting them all up so that it's really easy to add and remove fields
from the web.)

A temp file would work, but I'd really like to avoid it if possible.
Unfortunately, it looks like that's how we're going to have to do it.

I did look into the "USER" command and actually, that sounds like a great
utility!  Hopefully this will do the trick for us!

Thank you again for all of your suggestions!

This may be "out in left field" as I am strictly in the windows arena.

Would it be possible to set up 1 windows box running fpodbc and the windows
version of mysql, then link the windows mysql database to your *nix box?

This probably is "Rube Goldberg' solution.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting