sybperl-l Archive

From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at peppler dot org>
Subject: RE: getting output of sp_helptext
Date: Mar 26 2002 9:17PM

David Owen writes:
 > >>>>> "John" == McCarthy, John  writes:
 > 
 >   John> If you are running on unix, you can also use the defncopy sybase
 >   John> utility which produces very repeatable results and can also be used
 >   John> to "push" procs back in.
 > 
 > I don't think that you have to be on Unix in order to run defncopy.  It
 > certainly runs on NT, DOS and VMS.
 > 
 > defncopy does have the draw back that you have to write a wrapper script in
 > order to be able extract more than one proc with a single command.
 > 
 > There is another alternative, and that is to use the Java backend to Sybase
 > Central.  I cannot remember what it is called off the top of my head, but I
 > think I documented it in the FAQ.

I think it's ddlgen that you're thinking of.

Michael