Re: Procedure "fopen" in the utl_file package

>Lets say I am trying to open the file "ray.txt" in the "d:\raytemp"
>directory. Can someone tell me how to properly specified the path and
>the file name?

Then you must use UTL_FILE_DIR = d:\raytemp\ in the init.ora of the database. NOTE: you can have multiples of this UTL_FILE_DIR parameter, and the trailing slash at the end is very important...

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