Paul Moore pf_moore at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Nov 26 17:29:45 EST 2003

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"Orr, Steve" <sorr at rightnow.com> writes:

> Oracle provides an export utility (exp) and I have a shell script which
> compresses its output (not stdout) thru a pipe but l need a platform
> portable Python script for this. 

How platform portable? If you want to do this on Windows, you're
basically out of luck, as Windows doesn't support named pipes like
this.

If you're talking just Unix variants, I'd guess that a minimal shell
script is as portable as you need.

Paul
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