Please take no offense. I've been too direct.
But I certainly hope we will eventually get meaningful messages out of
billyboxes.
You know, when you lived so long with a real OS... {;-)
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"Syltrem" <syltrem_at_videotron.spammenot.ca> a écrit dans le message news:
KAhC7.483$qb4.1850_at_tor-nn1.netcom.ca...
> > Return a boolean if your function was successful.
>
> That probably is what Micro$oft does. That`s why it spits out messages
like
> "can't open file" and does not say why.
>
> Make your subroutine return a condition value "file is locked", "file does
> not exist", "insufficient privileges to open file", etc.
>
> I hope someone at M$ will read this too.
>
> --
>
> Syltrem
> http://pages.infinit.net/syltrem (OpenVMS related web site - en français)
> To reply to myself directly, remove .spammenot from my address
>
> "bhogak" <bhogak_at_yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message news:
> 9rakpm$q5i$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net...
> > UTL_FILE does not have procedures to empty, rename, delete, move, change
> > permissions etc on a file. It allows basic read and write features.
> > However, you can write your own function to empty the file - Pass the
> > directory and file name to this function. Let it open it in 'W' mode and
> > immediately close it.
> > Return a boolean if your function was successful.
> > hth
> > bhogak
> >
> > Shibu Mathew <shibumathew_at_alliantfs.com> wrote in message
> > news:3004f220.0110251124.784a513c_at_posting.google.com...
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I used UTL_FILE to write into an Operating System File(HP Unix). Now,
> > > does UTL_FILE have a function/procedure to empty the file created,
> > > before writing to the file again. I know that UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE will
> > > overwirte the file, but to make sure that the file created is new, I
> > > want to empty the existing file before writing into it again.
> > > I would really appreciate any answers to the above question.
> > > Thank You
> > >
> > > Shibu Mathews
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Fri Oct 26 2001 - 13:25:00 CDT
