Re: Oracle and NT text-mode progs.

In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.961105201811.26069A-100000_at_student.canberra.edu.au> Richard 'Frog' Barrott <u952297_at_student.canberra.edu.au> writes:
>From: Richard 'Frog' Barrott <u952297_at_student.canberra.edu.au>
>Subject: Oracle and NT text-mode progs.
>Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:24:50 +1100

>I have a fairly interesting problem that I hope someone can help me with,
>or least point me in the right direction to solve.
 

>I need to be able to telnet to an NT server (which is running) an Oracle
>server, and then run a text-mode program that will perform queries and
>updates on an Oracle database.
 

>How do I do it ?
 

>The first part I have solved ; there are several telnetd-type programs
>for NT that allow you to telnet to the server.
>The trick bit (for me) is how do I write the text-mode program that can
>communicate with the database ?

Piece of cake. Write a console-mode program (using standard scanf/printf if you like), and use ODBC, Pro*C or OCI for the Oracle access. I do this all the time.

Rick Brown
rick_at_onramp.net Received on Tue Nov 05 1996 - 00:00:00 CST