Re: BEWARE the _at_CON
Date: 1995/11/02
Message-ID: <47atgf$2ts_at_kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>#1/1
In <46qjt9$bp6_at_newsbf02.news.aol.com>, roywagner_at_aol.com (Roy Wagner) writes:
>I finally tried it again on my PC and CTRL-Z or any other attempt to
>"break" out of the lockup will work short of a complete CTRL-ALT-DEL
>reboot.
I tried it myself on a DOS 5.0 machine. CTRL-Z [Enter] worked just fine to get SQL*PLUS to process what had been typed and return to the prompt. Not to imply you're stupid or anything, but exactly how are you typing CTRL-Z? Just in case you don't know, you're supposed to hold down the Control key while typing "z".
>Oracle may be passing the _at_CON directly to DOS by way of Windows 3.1, but
>nothing is passing control back to SQL*Plus.
I don't have a computer running Windows and SQL*PLUS, so I can't try to
reproduce your problem exactly. What happens if you try to do this:
HOST COPY CON NUL
If the CTRL-Z "end of file" doesn't get you out of the copy command, I
would place the blame on Windows, not on SQL*PLUS.
- === === === = = = === === === === = = === = = = === = = === = # Alan Anderson # Ignorance can be fixed, but stupidity is permanent. # (I do not speak for Delco Electronics, and DE does not speak for me.)