Re: Oracle PL/SQL

From: Ian <WobbleLover_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:13:40 +1200
Message-ID: <7leiun$4bscq$1_at_titan.xtra.co.nz>


As far as I'm aware it's not possible, unless it's something added very recently.

The way I've done it in the past is via pipes, with a (C) deamon waiting on the pipe to run a Unix command. You can then block and wait on a return pipe if you need results.

Ian

Tony Buckley wrote in message
<7ldn64$2bu$1_at_nclient5-gui.server.virgin.net>...
>Does anyone know how to shell to Unix in mid PL/SQL script. In SQLPLUS you
>can use HOST or "!", but this doesn't seem to work in PL/SQL
>
>All help appreciated.
>
>Tony
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Received on Thu Jul 01 1999 - 04:13:40 CEST

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