Re: BEWARE the _at_CON

roywagner_at_aol.com (Roy Wagner) wrote:

>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.
 

>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.
 

>- Roy -

Windows does not use the DOS console. Input to a windows program such as SQL*Plus uses its own methods. The CON "file" exists and SQL*Plus will be trying to read text from it but there is no way to type anything into it.

Jim Smith                      jim_at_jimsmith.demon.co.uk
Oracle DBA