by Hi family. (Yes, I know I should write more often ;-)
Ever have to actually *look* and data you (or someone you love) have
just unloaded from a query? Ever try to chase down the value of a single
column? Must have been fun chasing the zigzagging column all over the
paper! Don't you wish the UNL could display straight columns? (To tell
the truth, I get this need about once in a blue moon, but why roin te
sales pitch? ;-)
Well wish no more! I recently submitted a shell/awk script called
beautify_unl to the IIUG software archives. Have a look at:
http://www.iiug.org/members/memb_software/archive/beautify_unl
where it is short enough to simply select it all and past into a flat
file on your Unix box. Or download from:
ftp://ftp.iiug.org/pub/informix/pub/beautify_unl.Z
What does it do? Well, it spits back out the UNL file but in neat
straight columns. (No unloaded blobs, please.)
Nothing will take the tedium out of poring over data dumps. This just
makes it easier.
--
-- Jake (Capable of distinguishing his gluteus maximus
from his proximal radioulnar articulation)
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