DBMS_PIPE question

Hi All:

I've run into a curious error while putting together a PL/SQL package that has a call to DBMS_PIPE

The code piece is as follows:

dbms_pipe.pack_message(nExceptionId);
ret_stat := dbms_pipe.send_message('ireg_daemon');

And I receive the following errors for these two lines:

LINE/COL ERROR

-------- -----------------------------------------------------------------
37/3     PLS-00201: identifier 'SYS.DBMS_PIPE' must be declared
37/3     PL/SQL: Statement ignored
38/3     PL/SQL: Statement ignored

I'll confess to being new to the use of pipes, and that I must have missed something, but I can't deduce what exactly is amissbased on the book I'm using (Oracle7 Server Application Developer's Guide Release 7.2).

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Todd C. Hansen

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