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LOGIN(dbid)

 

Logs in to the LINCKS database system, prompting for user id and pasword on stderr and /dev/tty. and starts up the connection to the database `dbid'. See also NOPROMPT_LOGIN().

Login names and passwords should be set in the file passwd, by using the 'dbpasswd' utility. The passwd file has this format:

'login name' 'user id' 'password'   

Each user should be on a separate line. 

Function returns:



Martin Sjolin
Thu Jun 15 20:41:59 MET DST 1995