Re: UTL_FILE and binary files

utl_file is used to read / write text files in the server directories....

When we wanted to create binary files we went into the world of external procedures, passed the data to a C dll and then let it write to the server file system....

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Steve Bright

steve.bright_at_capgemini.co.uk

Mark Wagoner wrote in message <37c2fed4.5519116_at_news.iac.net>...
>I have tried to write a test app but could not get it to work. I need
>to write binary files to the server's hard drive through (hopefully)
>the UTL_FILE package since DBMS_LOB is read-only. I can get it to
>work with plain text, but a binary file is truncated to 5 bytes (it
>should be around 4K).
>
>Is there any reason why this should not work?
>
>--
>Mark Wagoner
>To reply, remove no.spam from my e-mail address
Received on Wed Aug 25 1999 - 08:12:16 CDT