Re: Suppressing DOS System Messages

In <4f8l5a$mdg_at_newsbf02.news.aol.com>, asgcorp_at_aol.com (Asgcorp) writes:
>I am sending DOS commands from with SQL*Forms (Oracle 6.0, Forms 3.0)
>using the HOST command with the 'no_screen' option. This suppresses the
>issuing command from being echod. Is there a way to suppress the
>operating system message (ie ' 1 file(s) copied') or route them to a file.
> The returning message(s) corrupts the application screen.
>
>Thanks!

I have'nt used DOS for awhile so someone probably has a better method, but, I do know you could change your command to pipe the output (OS Message) to a file. For example, if you were doing a copy command use the syntax:

 copy test.txt test1.txt >null

M.Landa Received on Wed Feb 07 1996 - 00:00:00 CET