Utl_File and "Implicit" Directory References

From: <wb_bjohnson_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:06:48 GMT
Message-ID: <7gc9t5$l94$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

Has anyone tried using directory references - in Unix, obviously! - of the form ~<username>/<directory> ... oh, and gotten it to work??

I have both /home/<username>/<directory> and ~<username>/<directory> for the same location - well, at least an "ls" shows the same stuff both ways! - specified in the utl_file_dir init.ora parameter, but a simple test script raises an invalid_operation exception if I substitute the latter for the former in the call to Utl_File.FOpen.

(Before you ask: with the former as the location specification, I can read and write to the file without a problem.)

Did I miss something in the documentation??

TIA ... Barry Johnson -- BJohnson_at_WorldBank.Org

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