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Re: using pipe to export oracle on windows platform

From: Nuno Pinto do Souto <nsouto_at_bizmail.com.au>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:03:27 +1000 (EST)
Message-ID: <48803.203.55.29.231.1098385407.squirrel@www.bizmail.com.au>


Quoting from AUTHOR zhu chao:

> gzip.
> As windows does not support pipe like we do in unix: mknod exp.pipe
> p; gzip <exp.pipe >dmp.gz & and run exp. I tried cygwin. But seems gzip
> simply do not do anything there. Anyone tried using pipe on
> windows/cygwin? Or is there similar workaround?
>

I'm confused: why don't you just define a folder in Windows as "compressed" and export/import to it? There is no need in Windows for the "pipe to gzip" technique: compression is there in the file system to be used.

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