Re: The OS name of the server from PLSQL ?

There is no direct way of doing this, i am afraid. You may have to try interprocess communication using pipes to do this. Have a daemon process running on the server, in an endless loop listening on a pipe.

Anyone with better ideas?

Sridhar Subramaniam

Yves DEBIZET wrote in message <362EFF51.86B1EA77_at_mc2.fr>...
>How to retrieve the OS name of the server from PLSQL ?
>
>That would be useful in order to switch from WIN to UNIX pathnames
>replacing '\' with '/' and vice-versa.
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Received on Sat Oct 24 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT