Re: Need Pro-C code to read/write local files

"Erik L. Cohen" <erik.l.cohen_at_saic.com> wrote in message [Quoted] news:3b14ec64.372806_at_news.bellatlantic.net...
> Well Spencer,
> Not only did you miss the point entirely, but I'm not sure that
> cross-posting to three (3) newsgroups constitutes "entire gamma
> quadrant of the known universe".
>

It does in this newsgroup.

> I'm obviously not talking about a client user interacting with a file
> system. I'm talking about a client level process. If you must flame
> me, at least do it by e-mail and keep it personal.
>

There's nothing "obvious" about it, otherwise you wouldn't be posting here, [Quoted] there, there, and there in the first place, would you? Spencer's comments [Quoted] seem entirely appropriate.

No help for you, my son, from this quadrant.

HJR
> Erik.
>
>
> On Tue, 29 May 2001 21:35:46 -0500, "Spencer" <spencerp_at_swbell.net>
> wrote:
>
> >is there a particular reason this had to be cross-posted to the entire
> >gamma quadrant of the known universe ?
> >
> >i may have missed something here, but this doesn't sound like a Pro*C
> >issue... that is "reading a file from a remote machine" is not
 specifically
> >an oracle or pro*c issue.
> >
> >this is typically handled with utilities like ftp or nfs (unix) or lan
> >manager
> >style UNC names on dos/windows (i.e. c:\> net share ... c:\> net use ...)
> >
> >if you are going to "roll your own" solution, then you will need
 executables
> >on both machines, on either end of the network connection.
> >
> >
> >"Erik L. Cohen" <erik.l.cohen_at_saic.com> wrote in message
> >news:3b13d3d6.16000136_at_news.bellatlantic.net...
> >> I have a request that I would like to pass on from one of my clients:
> >>
> >>
> >> "
> >> following the question that I was mentioning to you. Can you post to
> >> newsgroups. Thanks,Ganesh.(6200).
> >>
> >> Need to read a file (.pdf, .gif) on client machine and write to BLOB
> >> datatype in Oracle8.0.4 located on the server. The limitation is the
> >> drives cannot be mapped between Server and client machines.
> >> "
> >>
> >> I believe what they need is a Pro-C example or something like that.
> >> It needs to be able to become aware of the client machine file system
> >> and then perform I/O.
> >>
> >> Any ideas???
> >>
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 23:47:21 CEST