Symptom
- The command line got Copy&Paste from an Outlook email or a Word document. And the execution within a DOS-Box (cmd.exe) results in an unexplainable error.
- According to the documentation the command line, for starting the SQL Anywhere engine or tool, is correct.
- The start of the SQL Anywhere engine results in an error like
- The start of a SQL Anywhere tool e.g. dbbackup shows the usage message like:
SQL Anywhere Backup Utility Version 16.0.0.1948
Usage: dbbackup [options] target-directory
@<data> expands <data> from environment variable <data> or file <data>
Options (use specified case, as shown):
-aw enable auto tuning of writers
(use -aw- to turn off auto tuning)
-b blocksize number of pages in data blocks. Default is 128
:
- This issue does not occur when using the TCC/LE Windows CMD Replacement Shell.
- This issue does not occur when, instead of Copy&Paste the command from the document, type it into the Command Prompt (cmd.exe).
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Environment
- SAP SQL Anywhere 16
SAP SQL Anywhere 12
Sybase SQL Anywhere 11
Sybase SQL Anywhere 10
Sybase SQL Anywhere 9
Product
SAP SQL Anywhere all versions ; SQL Anywhere all versions
Keywords
KBA , BC-SYB-SQA , SQL Anywhere (on premise, on demand) , Problem
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