Re: usage of "host" procedure in Forms

Hi,

Are you shure that xcopy is in your path, I tryed the same thing and it worked.

Stefan Richter <Stefan.Richter_at_Materna.DE> wrote in article <593pdr$i4f_at_peanuts.Materna.DE>...
> Hi,
>
> to copy files from CD ROM to local disk I use "host" PL/SQL procedure
> in a local PL/SQL package of my Forms (4.5.7, Windows 95) application.
>
> Unfortunately, the statement
> host ('xcopy d:\... c:\...');
> doesn't do anything and causes my application to hang,
> while other statements like
> host ('sqlldr72 ...');
> seem to run without problems.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Stefan
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 19 1996 - 00:00:00 CET