Re: Can print to file in PL/SQL?

From: Christopher L. Beck <clbeck_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: 1995/09/14
Message-ID: <4396cd$nue_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>#1/1


jarchie_at_ivar7 (Jennifer L. Archie) wrote:
>
>That's exactly what I would like to do. But ...
>
>It appears that we do not have the TEXT_IO package in our db; by the way,
>we're using Oracle7 v7.1.4.1.0 and PL/SQL 2.1.4.0.0. I looked at the
>/rdbms/admin sql scripts and couldn't locate anything about text_io,
>file_type or fopen/fclose. Is that a special package? How can I obtain it?
>
>Thanks for the pointers.
>jennifer

Jennifer,

I have to apologize for the answer I gave you. I have been working with forms 4.5 too long now. The text_io package is part of forms :-(

not the dbms, yet. Oracle 7.3 will allow you to write to the file system.

Sorry for the confusion.

chris.

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Received on Thu Sep 14 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST

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