Re: Start a program from wthin Oracle

Billy O'Connor wrote:

> "Moritz Klein" <mklein_at_students.uni-mainz.de> writes:
>
> > Bert Bear wrote:
> > > Moritz,
> > >
> > > Interesting how minds end up needing the same thing about the same
> > > time. Last week, I posted a message about needing to call a program
> > > (e.g. do command line stuff) from a PL/SQL procedure.
> > >
> > > PLEASE let us know what you end up using and how it works.
> >
> > Hi,
> > i have not solved the problem by now, but the url Tim X posted looks
> > interesting.
> > For our webdesigner uses PHP which has a function exec for now the script is
> > started from within the website.
> >
>
> What about the dbms.pipe package, can't that execute an external program?
>
> --
> Billy O'Connor
> Editor, Beyond Linux From Scratch http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org

Communicate with but not execute.

Daniel Morgan Received on Sun Dec 29 2002 - 23:52:07 CST