Re: HELP! NO EXPORT TO TAPE FOR NT??

Mark Rosenbaum <mjr_at_netcom.com> wrote in article <mjrEGvzur.L8s_at_netcom.com>...

> In article <01bcc2b8$33195340$2d2bb1cc_at_Kirsh.itsc.state.md.us>,
> Laurie Kirsh <lkirsh_at_itsc.org> wrote:
> >We are working with a large Oracle database on Windows NT 4.0 and
 recently
> >found out, to our dismay, that Oracle is incapable of exporting to tape
 on
> >an NT system.
> <snip>
> grains of salt 8-}. NT has a POSIX compatability mode (try MKS). In
> POSIX (UNIX) you can use a named pipe (mkfifo) which looks like a
> file but is actually a pipe in memory.
<snip>

AFAIK you can not write directly to the tape device //./TAPE/0 or whatever it's call under NT using redirected pipes. I'm not sure if the POSIX subsystem can do it. An alternative may be to try Cygnus's GNU NT software (http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/) - they've implemented POSIX via a DLL and have ported a bunch of UNIX utilities to NT. cpio and tar may have been ported too.

I had a quick look at the Win32 API - it should be possible to write a cpio type of utility that opens a device like a tape and write standard input to it. Maybe there's some freeware/shareware available for it? If I had the time I would love to try writing one myself... <sigh>

regards,
Billy Received on Tue Sep 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT