Re: PL/SQL: UTL_FILE - package

Hi,

If you're using Oracle Forms as the clientapplication then you could use the build in text_io package which has similar functionality as the utl_file package, but this runs on the client instead of the server.

Joep Hendrix

Philippe Evenepoel wrote in message
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>Hi,
>
>I am quite new to Oracle and I have the following question/problem:
>
>I created a stored procedure in wich I use the UTL_FILE - package to create
>text-files.
>This works fine as long as I create the file on the server (with Fopen() )
>My question: is it possible to create a file on the client-side ? And how ?
>I tried by giving the clients computername and a shared directory (ex:
>\\Pc_001\mydir) as the directory parameter but it doesn't work.
>We use Oracle 8i (8.1.5), TCP/IP-protocol, Win NT-server, Win95-client.
>
>Thanks in advance !
>
>Phil.
>
Received on Mon Feb 07 2000 - 21:48:54 CET