Re: UTL_FILE on client

From: Nick Butcher <nickb_at_btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:04:33 -0000
Message-ID: <91d5aj$hec$2@plutonium.btinternet.com>

Bill

Alika's answer explains why this doesn't work. You can however use TEXT_IO from Forms to write to the client file system if that helps.

Regards

Nick

"Bill" <wsprouse_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:91bkd3$kle$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hello all.
>
> I am trying to use the UTL_FILE package to write output to a file on a
> client computer. The client is NT 4.0, Oracle is on a Unix box and I am
> running the code in SQL*Plus on the client. The documentation seems to
> suggest I can use this package to write to files on the client - is this
> true?
>
> When I run the code the INVALID PATH exception is raised when I use the
> UTL_FILE.FOPEN. I am trying to direct the output to a directory and
> file on the NT client.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bill
>
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Received on Fri Dec 15 2000 - 07:04:33 CST