Re: sqlplus wrapper for history & editing

I was actually going to write my own wrapper in perl, I had written the first few lines of code (seriously !)a few days ago;

#!/usr/bin/perl

End Of script

I was then browsing this group and saw your post, so I downloaded the script compiled it and had exactly the same. This was on;

Compaq PIII 550
EIDE Hard Disk
192mb PC100
Redhat Linux 6.2
Oracle 8.1.6 with local database

What platform did you have trouble with ?

Cheers,

Brian.

<bryan_w_taylor_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8u1kgs$mvu$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I just stumbled across a GPL'd wrapper for sqlplus that uses the FSF's
> readline library to implement command history and better command line
> editing. This readline wrapper was written by Angus Mackay in 1999, but
> there's no documentation other than the c code comments. It's at:
>
> http://www.orafaq.com/scripts/c_src/sqlpp.txt
>
> Unfortunately, I've never worked with readline before and I'm doing
> something wrong, because the wrapper doesn't accept input correctly for
> me. I did get it to compile, and readline seems to kickoff and launch
> the sqlplus child process, but when I enter the username, the program
> just ends. Using username/password arguments just results in "SQL>"
> scrolling endlessly down my page.
>
> Has anybody used the above utility?
>
> Does anybody who has programmed with the readline library have advice
> on how to configure it?
>
>
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Received on Mon Nov 06 2000 - 04:10:50 CST