Re: PLEX -- Has anyone used it?

In article <34677DDB.438F_at_stanford.edu>, William Tierney <wtierney_at_stanford.edu> writes
>Dave Nels wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> Has anyone used the PLEX utility (used for calling C functions from
>> PL/SQL, available from Oracle Government Web site)? Any problems you
>> would like to share before I dig into it? Any opinions would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Dave Nels
>>
>> Please Note:
>> Email address has been modified; remove '---' to reply
>
>We use plex all the time .. we have a Library system
>(unicorn by sirsi corp.) and we pass our queries
>through our Oracle webserver (Using the Oracle
>Gov. web cart) through the plex .. to the unicorn
>api server who returns the search results..
>
>Watch out which user you start plex as ...
>it will have those permissions in Unixland..
>
>I thought plex would be going away though with
>advent of the webserver 3.0 cartridges?
>
>Na nu

The PLEX description mentions that is for Unix systems, is this really the case? Sounds like a useful utility for our NT4 system...

Andy

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Andy Hardy
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