At 08:02 PM 16-10-02 +0000, Derek Basch wrote:

>Is it normal for a successfull backup using gbak to return no text?
>I am calling gbak with a pipe from python and I wanted to make sure.

Yes. It only verbalises if the backup fails. I recall Bill Karwin once
mentioning that a successful backup returns an OS errcode of 0 (which a
Windows .bat file can respond to with a message) but I don't know about
other OSs..

heLen