Re: Large file I/O

In article <3u0496$mni_at_harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> emm_at_daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Evan McLean) writes:
> We need to be able to read and particularly write large files from PL/SQL.
> Packages such as dbms_output seem to store everything you write into a
> table and only flush to disk when the program finishes. This is no good
> as some of the files we are writing are so large that the table runs out
> of room.

You don't say if you want to do this from the server or client. Oracle Developer/2000 has a built-in package called TEXT_IO that provides file I/O.

--Russ

Russ Seligman                 "If there's nothing wrong with me, maybe
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