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Have a baffling situation.
I'm running Oracle 7.3 on a Sequent Box, dynix operating system.
We invoke sqlplus from a korn shell script, retrieve the nextval from a sequence generator, redirect the output to a file and...
then fire up sed and replace all leading spaces with zeros.
Things usually work fine, however (sporadically), if the nextval is a 2 digit number (the sequence is defined as a NUMBER 10), the file contains a \t character, instead of the 8 leading spaces.
This is causing some major headaches.
I've verified that it is not terminal emulation.
I don't see any obvious environment variables being set....
This happens on at least two of the Sequent Boxes we're running
Any ideas?
Any suggestions sincerely appreciated
Best Regards
Wayne
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Wayne Miner Speedware Programmer aka wayne_at_sonic.net Good things: Newfoundland Dogs, Am Flyer trains Bad things: The FDAReceived on Thu Apr 01 1999 - 22:40:07 CST