Re: BFile access problem

It's some time since I last did this, but you could try:

    create directory xmlfiles as 'c:\xmlfiles\';

The terminating slash is probably significant.

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Martin Gutowski wrote in message <9me2un$b2c$1_at_boatanchor.ems.psu.edu>...


>Hi,

>

>I'm having trouble using BFiles on 8.1.7. Here's what I've done.

>Logged in as sys, I ran the following command:

>

>SQL> create directory xmlfiles as 'c:\xmlfiles';

>

>It worked as I received the message:

>

>Directory created.

>