Re: How to call a C program from a PL/SQL package

From: Gerard M. Averill <gaverill_at_chsra.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 98 16:13:04 GMT
Message-ID: <70q9q7$c92$3@news.doit.wisc.edu>

In article <362C5451.78C5_at_sia.ucl.ac.be>, lelangue_at_sia.ucl.ac.be wrote:

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>I have read in the PL/SQL User's guide & réf [chap 9] about how to call
>PL/SQL from a C program; but nothing about how to call a C program from
>a PL/SQL package.

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I believe you need to look at the DBMS_PIPE package. A couple examples of its use are:

http://www.mcid.com/rmoug/plsql.html

http://www.revealnet.com/plsql-pipeline/archives.htm#code14

http://members.xoom.com/tutu/

and chapter 8 of the Oracle Application Developers Guide.

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Gerard M. Averill, Associate Researcher CHSRA, University of Wisconsin - Madison GAverill_at_chsra.wisc.edu Received on Fri Oct 23 1998 - 11:13:04 CDT