Re: WRAP Utility

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:12:52 GMT, mwagoner_at_no.spam.medplus.com (Mark Wagoner) wrote:

>Does anyone know where Oracle hides the documentation for the WRAP utility?
>I have looked in the Server Administrators Guide, the Application
>Developers Guide, the PL/SQL User's Guide, the Server Utilities Guide and
>the on-line help file. The word WRAP doesn't even appear in the index of
>any of these.
>
>I have also tried running WRAP with no arguments as well as the following:
>?, -?, /?, help, -help, /help, help=y, -help=y, /help=y. I even tried it
>with the name of a file I want to wrap as well as with the name of the file
>to wrap and the name of an output file. All I get is the descriptive error
>Couldn't Process Command Line Arguments.
>
>I can't believe that Oracle would 'provide' you with a tool then supply no
>documentation on it, as well as make it so non-intuitive and downright
>frustrating to try and use. I've seen better stuff from Microsoft.
>--
>Mark Wagoner
>mwagoner_at_no.spam.medplus.com
>
>To reply, remove no.spam from my mail address.

Hi Mark,

in the 7.3 release online docs, you can find it in PL/SQL Users Guide and Reference, Appendix D. The call syntax is

WRAP INAME=inputfile [ONAME=outputfile]

Hope this helps
Peter

Peter Schneider
pschneider.ctj_at_metronet.de Received on Thu Nov 13 1997 - 00:00:00 CST