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

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr_at_www.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 21:47:25 GMT
Message-ID: <3b16496d@news.iprimus.com.au>

"Erik L. Cohen" <erik.l.cohen_at_saic.com> wrote in message news:3b1644be.1199024_at_news.bellatlantic.net...
> OK. This is getting ridiculous. Fist of all, let me apologize for the
> inconvenience caused by my inappropriate cross-posting. That having
> been said, can someone help me find code that performs I/O at the
> client level. The would be code that is may be invoked by another
> client process or, mor likely, a server process.
> Someone, that is, other than my "father" Howard Rogers, or the flame
> thrower Spencer.
>
>
> On Thu, 31 May 2001 23:02:59 +1000, "Howard J. Rogers"
> <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote:
>
> >"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
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
>
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