Re: Text_IO vs. UTL_FILE vs. dbms.output

"Russ" <rgkenneysr_at_cs.com> wrote in message news:1e0b5621.0208271207.7c6659fa_at_posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> I am writing a procedure that creates a report; the procedure is
> stored on a Unix box. I need to run it from a Windows box using Forms
> 6 and the output needs to be written to the client pc. I know that
> Text_IO will do this, however, we don't have the package installed on
> our systems. I also know that UTL_FILE won't work for me because I
> don't have the dir path in my init.ora and since this is a production
> db, I can't take it down to put it in at this moment. My question is
> this: other than dbms.output (which looses it formatting) is there
> another way to do this task?
>
> Thanks
You don't have to install the text_io package, it is a package that is present in Forms. Check the 'Built-in packages' node in the object browser. If you build and run Forms, it's there.
Regards, Joost

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Joost Bataille
University of Amsterdam ICT centre