About GET_FILE_NAME in Oracle Forms 9i

Hai,
I am using Forms 9i.GET_FILE_NAME is ot working.SO i download Oracle webutil for 10g.I am using 10g database.
How to configue Webutil?
Please anybody can clarrify this?.

Andy,
the built-in operates where the runtime is, which is the server. Forms 9i is web only and for this reason the built-in no longer works as it did. Use webutil (see otn.oracle.com/products/forms), which has this function (prefixed with "client_") to do exactly what you want it to do.
Frank

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