You do not need any special Oracle Rdb privileges to use the EXECUTE statement. You can use the SET VERIFY statement to have the commands in the file displayed on the screen as they execute. RDO recognizes a special RDO command file called RDOINI.RDO, which contains RDO statements to be issued before RDO displays the RDO> prompt. If this file exists, RDO executes the commands in that file first, before displaying the prompt and accepting your input. If you have defined the logical name RDOINI to point to a general initialization file, RDO uses this file. Otherwise, it looks for RDOINI.RDO in the current default directory.