Re: Calling UNIX commands from PL/SQL scripts...

From: Mubashir Cheema <cheema_at_Jupiter.SPARCO.Com>
Date: 1997/07/27
Message-ID: <5rfio0$jjk$1@Jupiter.SPARCO.Com>#1/1

Vijay Damodaran <vijayd_at_nortel.com> writes:

>Hi,  

> I want to call a UNIX command from within a PL/SQL script. Is there
> anyway to do this. This PL/SQL script is a packaged procedure and
> is called from a Forms 4.5 trigger.
 

> Since the process must run on the server side due to some mounting
> issues, I cannot use Forms 4.5's host command. Is there a
> corresponding host command for PL/SQL on the server side.

It cannot be done. Not with Oracle 7.3.* at least. There is no good, easy and clean solution to this problem.

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Mubashir Cheema cheema@sparco.com http://cheema.sparco.com/ Received on Sun Jul 27 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT