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My PC had virus that affected bootblock. Anti-Virus didn't clean it up. Also after reformating the disk, the warning message still shows at each reboot. Is there anyway to clean it or recreate the bootblock to another cylinder? Thanks

Has anyone got a C program that changes unix user password in noninteractive mode. Thanks in advance.

I created a bat file and tried to read parameters from a dat file: file.bat < file.dat However it doesn't work. Is there anyone can help. Thanks in advance.

Thanks, it works.

To best of my knowledge, typeset uses for defining a field type. My question was if I have a predefined alphanumeric filed as input. How can test it to see there is no numeric character in the filed. Thanks

Thanks, Can you elaborate more on how to use expr to check a field for numeric or alphanumeric?

Is there a way to test an input field cotains either numeric or alphanumeric in ksh script? Thanks in advance.

bzip2 is really slow after trying. Normally I have more than 100GB database for tar and compress daily. The uncompress takes more time to finish by the way. We have to backup/restore few times a day some occasions, so a better utility may be needed.

Thank you. I will try gzip and bzip2.

I am using "compress" to compress tar file(oracle DB). However it just takes too long for big files. Switching to gzip, zip and zcat won't help too much either. Any recommendations to speed it up or some other utilities? Thanks in advance. Shieh

I am using WOTS to alert and email me when a specify message shows up from mutiple logs and files. However WOTS doesn't have a way to stop sending identical messages. As a result, there are just too many mails/pages that annoy me. Is there anyone knows any other product that will do the function...

Hi Himanshu Thank you very much for your answer. However I don't have account on Metalink. Could you please get it for me? Thanks a lot. Shieh

I have two nic cards(public and private) in both primary and standby server running oracle 9i. Because there is a need to access database through private connection, so I have both addresses in listener.ora and tnsnames.ora. However primary server always use private network to talk with standby...

Thanks, Ken

Is there any way that I can save commands on history file under Bourne shell environment as other shells? Thanks

Great, it worked. Thanks so much for all of your help Shieh

CR option on FTP at unix machine is for whether stripe CR or not when there is CR on the original file. The file I try to download is on MF and there is no CR on each line of the file. Basically all trailing spaces got trimed when it download to Unix machine. Shieh

Unix to unix is no problem because it has \n at end of each line. However there is no CR or NL at end of line on MF. When it transfers to unix all spaces got trimed. Shieh

It is IBM MF. I initiate ftp session from Unix so it is up to unix to handle ftp function. Problem is that there is no option of reserving trailing spaces from ftp of unix(Solaris). Under MF, I can specify this option if I initiate ftp from MF. I can put \n(new line or CR) at the end of text...

Yes, I did try with binary mode. The original file is a text file and it turned into garbage unreadable file. Shieh