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Vijay Damodaran <vijayd_at_nortel.com> writes:
>Hi,
> I want to call a UNIX command from within a PL/SQL script. Is there
> anyway to do this. This PL/SQL script is a packaged procedure and
> is called from a Forms 4.5 trigger.
> Since the process must run on the server side due to some mounting
> issues, I cannot use Forms 4.5's host command. Is there a
> corresponding host command for PL/SQL on the server side.
It cannot be done. Not with Oracle 7.3.* at least. There is no good, easy and clean solution to this problem.