Re: Need Pro-C code to read/write local files

"Erik L. Cohen" <erik.l.cohen_at_saic.com> wrote in message news:3b14ec64.372806_at_news.bellatlantic.net...
> Well Spencer,
> Not only did you miss the point entirely, but I'm not sure that
> cross-posting to three (3) newsgroups constitutes "entire gamma
> quadrant of the known universe".
>

It does in this newsgroup.

> I'm obviously not talking about a client user interacting with a file
> system. I'm talking about a client level process. If you must flame
> me, at least do it by e-mail and keep it personal.
>

There's nothing "obvious" about it, otherwise you wouldn't be posting here, there, there, and there in the first place, would you? Spencer's comments seem entirely appropriate.

No help for you, my son, from this quadrant.

HJR
> Erik.
>
>
> On Tue, 29 May 2001 21:35:46 -0500, "Spencer" <spencerp_at_swbell.net>
> wrote:
>
> >is there a particular reason this had to be cross-posted to the entire
> >gamma quadrant of the known universe ?
> >
> >i may have missed something here, but this doesn't sound like a Pro*C
> >issue... that is "reading a file from a remote machine" is not
 specifically
> >an oracle or pro*c issue.
> >
> >this is typically handled with utilities like ftp or nfs (unix) or lan
> >manager
> >style UNC names on dos/windows (i.e. c:\> net share ... c:\> net use ...)
> >
> >if you are going to "roll your own" solution, then you will need
 executables
> >on both machines, on either end of the network connection.
> >
> >
> >"Erik L. Cohen" <erik.l.cohen_at_saic.com> wrote in message
> >news:3b13d3d6.16000136_at_news.bellatlantic.net...
> >> I have a request that I would like to pass on from one of my clients:
> >>
> >>
> >> "
> >> following the question that I was mentioning to you. Can you post to
> >> newsgroups. Thanks,Ganesh.(6200).
> >>
> >> Need to read a file (.pdf, .gif) on client machine and write to BLOB
> >> datatype in Oracle8.0.4 located on the server. The limitation is the
> >> drives cannot be mapped between Server and client machines.
> >> "
> >>
> >> I believe what they need is a Pro-C example or something like that.
> >> It needs to be able to become aware of the client machine file system
> >> and then perform I/O.
> >>
> >> Any ideas???
> >>
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 16:47:21 CDT