Manipulate files or run external process

I need to find and read files from a stored procedure. So I have two solutions :
- Reading the file directly using functions from a package able to manage
files, and my question is "which package can do that ? and what are the constraints ?"
- Activating an external process that can read files (written in C for
example), and then my question is "how to launch or activate an new process from my stored procedure".

Thanks in advance.
Thierry Le Blond. Received on Tue Oct 15 2002 - 10:21:39 CDT