Re: A $64k ? (UNIX commands on NT)

From: <nwhitehead_at_rocketmail.com>
Date: 1997/10/14
Message-ID: <3443b44c.1394725@news.cybernex.net>#1/1

Go to www.windows95.com.
They have a few sets of UNIX utilties for Win32. If you really need hard core UNIX support for NT, look for a product called OpenNT.

Nicholas
nwhitehead_at_rocketmail.com

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>I need to convert a file from EBCDIC to ASCII and then use it as input
>to SQL*Loader using as little disk space as possible. On UNIX machines
>this can be accomplished easily using “dd” to do the character
>conversion and a FIFO pipe to handle the I/O. An example:
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>$ mknod fifo_pipe p
>$ dd if=/dev/rmt/0 of=fifo_pipe conv=ascii &
>$ sqlldr userid=foo/bar data=fifo_pipe control=foobar.ctl
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>What is the NT solution, or is there none?
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><TT>I need to convert a file from EBCDIC to ASCII and then use it as input
>to SQL*Loader using as little disk space as possible.  On UNIX machines
>this can be accomplished easily using “dd” to do the character conversion
>and a FIFO pipe to handle the I/O.  An example:</TT><TT></TT>
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> <TT>$ dd if=/dev/rmt/0 of=fifo_pipe conv=ascii &</TT>
> <TT>$ sqlldr userid=foo/bar data=fifo_pipe control=foobar.ctl</TT><TT></TT>
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><TT>What is the NT solution, or is there none?</TT><TT></TT>
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Received on Tue Oct 14 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT