In article <915bvq$cp0$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
Head_Cheese_mmmm <head_cheese_mmmm_at_my-deja.com> wrote:
> I am having a hell of a time getting SQL+ to drop the new line
> Character from my spool file. I can't see the Character in vi but it
is
> there because my script output is 8k but the file size is 9k. The
> script I have written is simple it just calculates the last EOM from
> dual and writes that to a spool file. Several days later a UNIX batch
> file wakes up to read tha date and process the EOM Data, the problem
is
> that it expects 8k not 9k. Here is the script:
>
> SET TRIMS ON
> SET PAGESIZE 0
> SET EMBEDDED OFF
> SET HEADS OFF
> SET NEWP NONE
> SET HEADING OFF
> SET ECHO OFF
> SET FEEDBACK OFF
> SET LIN 8
> SET SPACE 0
> SET RECSEP OFF
>
> SPOOL $DATA_DIR/sysctl.asc
> SELECT TO_CHAR(LAST_DAY(ADD_MONTHS(SYSDATE,-1)),'YYYYMMDD') FROM
DUAL
> /
> SPOOL OFF
>
> EXIT
>
> How do I get rid of the 1k new line Character?????
>
> What I don't understand is the "SET PAGESIZE 0" should "supress all
> headings, pagebreaks,titles,the initial blank line,and other
formatting
> information ." according to the SQL+ manaual. The O/S is Sun 2.6 and
> the Oracle is 8.01 if it matters.....
>
> TIA
>
Under UNIX the spool file is a text file. All text file lines end in a
Newline character! It is my understanding that the newline is
required. Under DOS each line of a text file ends in a newline,
carriage return. I think what you need to do is change the processing
program to handle the newline, such as using gets to read the input
line in C.
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Received on Tue Dec 12 2000 - 09:21:00 CST
