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"Moritz Klein" <mklein_at_students.uni-mainz.de> writes:
> Bert Bear wrote:
> > Moritz,
> >
> > Interesting how minds end up needing the same thing about the same
> > time. Last week, I posted a message about needing to call a program
> > (e.g. do command line stuff) from a PL/SQL procedure.
> >
> > PLEASE let us know what you end up using and how it works.
>
> Hi,
> i have not solved the problem by now, but the url Tim X posted looks
> interesting.
> For our webdesigner uses PHP which has a function exec for now the script is
> started from within the website.
>
What about the dbms.pipe package, can't that execute an external program?
-- Billy O'Connor Editor, Beyond Linux From Scratch http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.orgReceived on Sun Dec 29 2002 - 19:20:13 CST