apologies.
Its there in 8.1.6.3 as well.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Norman Dunbar" <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote in message
news:E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA7034B7C13_at_lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk...
> Morning Niall,
>
> in 817 there is an overloaded version of FOPEN which allows you to
> specify a maximum linesize. I'm not sure if it was introduced in 815,
> 816 or 817 as I only have the 817 version here (and I've used it !).
> Otherwise, the maximum is defined as '1023 bytes on most systems'. In
> 8.0 this was 1022 bytes - so 8i gained an extra byte somewhere :o)
>
> Cheers,
> Norman.
>
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> Norman Dunbar
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk]
> Posted At: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:31 AM
> Posted To: server
> Conversation: utl_file and newline?
> Subject: Re: utl_file and newline?
>
>
> IIRC that limit is the 9i limit and is,as you say reasonable. I believe
> that
> in 8i the limit was closer to 1k. Also as of 9i you can specify your
> linesize in you call to FOPEN.
>
> <SNIP>
>
>
Received on Wed Feb 12 2003 - 07:29:09 CST
