Re: Writing to OS file

From: Lee Levy <levy.lee.ls_at_bhp.com.au>
Date: 1996/07/01
Message-ID: <4r9mq9$9op_at_gossamer.itmel.bhp.com.au>#1/1

In article <31D81533.78BF_at_capecod.net>, Paul Jacobs <pjacobs_at_capecod.net> says:
>
>We started with an early 7.0 version of Oracle on a Novell server. At the time, I was unable to
>find any PL/SQL support for writing directly to OS files. (It may have existed and I simply
>couldn't find it...) It seems to me that when we upgraded to a later Oracle version that I read
>something about some new capabilities allowing us to write to OS files directly. I recently went
>looking in the docs, but now I can't find anything about this topic.
>
>Can anybody help me out there? The bottom line: how do I write directly to OS files from Oracle.
>Where is it documented?

From memory:
package DBMS_OUTPUT from the database
package TEXT_IO from Forms.

I'd get the doco either in the Forms designer, or through the F45 on-line help. Dunno otherwise.

and yes, you are right - it came in with 7.1.something

HIH
Lee
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Opinions expressed are mostly my own, so give me some credit. Received on Mon Jul 01 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST