Date formatting in SQLPlus

Hello
I am new to Oracle and need some help formatting a date string. I am on Oracle 9.2.0.1 and need to convert a date string from this format 5-22-2007 to this format 22-May-2007. Iam converting data from an MS Access tool into Oracle using Oracle Conversion tools so I need to add the formatting to a control file and import a dat file. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely
Kim Mitchell

I was not aware you could do that. I have control files that will take a csv and load the data into the same databse field as named in the control file. The difficulty lies in the fact that I actually have to legacy systems, an IBM iseries database and an Access DB, some data will come from both systems. However they both have ODBC connections/drivers so it may work. If there is an easier way I am all ears or eyes in this case.
Can you explain more about this or do tyou have a good resource I could look at?
Thanks
Kim

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