From: "David Russell" <user@msn.com>
Subject: Re: Starting executable from PL/SQL procedure
Date: 1998/01/01
Message-ID: <01bd16f3$da1f72c0$706745c2@thor>#1/1
References: <34A8ABFA.3AAF4A62@mail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server



If you have Oracle7 then the only way this can be done is with DBMS_PIPE,
the approach is documented in the Oracle7 Server Application Developers
guide. It basically consists of a process waiting for a message at one end
of the pipe and then running the required executable.

If you have Oracle8 then you can also use external procedures.
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Regards
David Russell

Alain Schartz <schartz@mail.com> wrote in article
<34A8ABFA.3AAF4A62@mail.com>...
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody know how to start a DOS-executable from inside a PL/SQL
> procedure? I would need to pass some command line arguments to this
> executable.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Al.
>