Oracle-L: UTL

From: Harrington, Eric <Eric.Harrington_at_maine.gov>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:29:53 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00566A16.20030311112953@fatcity.com>

Any help would be appreciated...

Is it possible to write a file to the local OS if the database is remote? Should I be using UTL_FILE or another package?

I'm attempting to write to a file on my local OS (Windows NT 4.0). The database version is 9i r2 and resides on a HP-UX box. I've created a directory object as follows:

CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY utl_file_dir AS 'c:\';

The output from the SQL statement: select * from all_directories; follows:

OWNER DIRECTORY_NAME DIRECTORY_PATH

------------- ------------------------------  ----------------------------
SYS       UTL_FILE_DIR           c:\

File handle code from my procedure follows:

l_FileHandle := UTL_FILE.FOPEN('UTL_FILE_DIR','role.txt','r');

When executing the associated procedure I get the following error:

ORA-29280: invalid directory path

Thanks, Eric Harrington

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