Re: Launch an executable using pl/sql

From: Greg Forestieri <gforestieri9_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 15 Sep 2003 05:48:31 -0700
Message-ID: <6a8cdd95.0309150448.49d0d113@posting.google.com>

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1063412302.720_at_yasure>...
> Chico Che wrote:
>
> >Does anybody know how to do this?
> >
> >Launch notepad for example or a specific application.
> >
> >
> From PL/SQL? Surely you are kidding.
>
> But I'll play along.
>
> What version and edition?
> Which version of the Windows operating system?
>
> Write a very nice little C program to watch a pipe. Then have DBMS_PIPE
> send a message to the C program telling it to start Notepad. But again
> ... surely you are kidding.

Chico says he's not kidding and quit calling him Shirley! ;)

Surely he must be kidding. Received on Mon Sep 15 2003 - 07:48:31 CDT