Re: IMP SHOW=Y on Windows 2000 and Ora 8.1.7.0.0

To enable folk to brush up on their text parsing skills and write a perl or other script to parse the damn thing. :( "FC" <flavio_at_tin.it> wrote in message news:l2r6a.225669$0v.6361289_at_news1.tin.it...
> Hello folks,
> is there any way to change the funny formatting of the dump file created
by
> IMP when you set SHOW=Y and LOG=<somefile>?
> I couldn't find anything on this subject in the manuals.
>
> The output file is formatted in a rather odd manner, apparently 80
> characters wide but some lines ar shorter, some contain nothing but
blanks,
> each one is enclosed by double quotes, the first quote is always in
position
> 2, the last one may float and statements wrap to the next line at position
> 79.
>
> Without statement terminators the file is doesn't seem to be executable,
> even with the double quotes removed.
> Is there any good reason to make it like this?
>
> Bye,
> Flavio
>
>
Received on Mon Feb 24 2003 - 18:23:36 CET