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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