Re: Read a File into Forms4.5 and Display it

Jenny Farnham wrote:
>
> In Unix, I have a 5 line text file. The file would
> always be 80 characters or less per line.
>
> I would like to somehow read this file and display
> it to the user when the user presses a button on a form
> in Forms 4.5
>
> Anybody have an idea how to do this? Do I need to use the TEXT_IO
> program unit that is built into forms?
>
> Thanks,
> Jennifer
> Boulder, Colorado

Check page 8-16 of the PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference book. It refers to the package UTL_FILE which allows PL/SQL programs to read and write to OS text files. I haven't used it myself yet. It was introduced into PL/SQL with Version 7.3 RDBMS.

Greg... Received on Mon May 05 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT