Re: FILE I/O other than UTL_FILE package in PL/SQL

From: Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: 19 Dec 2001 16:34:31 -0800
Message-ID: <9vrbmn01e7b@drn.newsguy.com>

In article <57e4ce6e.0112191237.be003be_at_posting.google.com>, asg2037_at_hotmail.com says...
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>Is there any other way to read system files through pl/sql other than
>using the UTL_FILE package fopen and get_line function?

bfiles with the DBMS_LOB package to read...

Java stored procedures...

External procedures written in C....

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