Re: Calling 'C' programs from PL/SQL packages

Your Name wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> We have a Oracle 7.2.3 database running PL/SQL Release 2.2.3.0.0 on a HP Unix box.
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> What I would like to do is call a 'C' program from within a PL/SQL package. I can't use 'host' as in forms 3 to execute an operating system command and I know of no other way of calling this function. If the 'C' function could return a value into a PL/SQL variable that would be even better.
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> Surely, Oracle PL/SQL must in some way call low level 'C' routines to carry out it's own functionality.
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> Any help would be much appreciated.
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> Pali

There is a real easy way to do this. Upgrade to Oracle 8i. It permits the use of routines stored in shared objects and DLLs. Received on Wed May 24 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST