Writing to OS file

We started with an early 7.0 version of Oracle on a Novell server. At the time, I was unable to find any PL/SQL support for writing directly to OS files. (It may have existed and I simply couldn't find it...) It seems to me that when we upgraded to a later Oracle version that I read something about some new capabilities allowing us to write to OS files directly. I recently went looking in the docs, but now I can't find anything about this topic.

Can anybody help me out there? The bottom line: how do I write directly to OS files from Oracle. Where is it documented?

Thanks a bunch...

Paul Jacobs
Alexander Associates Received on Mon Jul 01 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST