Webutil command into batch file

Question

Hello,
We have a 10gR2 environment, with webutil.
I get a weird behaviour with CLIENT_HOST.
When I use this command
myCommand := 'cmd /c COPY c:\file1.txt c:\toto.sql ';
CLIENT_HOST(myCommand);
There is no problem.When I use put the COPY command into a .bat file, in order to execute the .bat file with CLIENT_HOST ... the command doesn't make the job.
There is no special information in the jInitiator console...
But here is the code I'd like to write :
myFile CLIENT_TEXT_IO.FILE_TYPE;
myCommand VARCHAR2(1000);
BEGIN
myFile := CLIENT_TEXT_IO.FOPEN('c:\myBatch.bat', 'W');
CLIENT_TEXT_IO.PUTF(myFile, 'COPY c:\file1.txt c:\toto.sql \n');
CLIENT_TEXT_IO.FCLOSE(myFile);
myCommand := 'cmd /c c:\myBatch.bat ';
CLIENT_HOST(myCommand);
END;
Also, when I doubleClick on the myBatch.bat file under Windows, the command works fine !
My problem is that I need to have a .bat file that gathers many commands. (this is not only about copying a file)
What puzzles me, is that I don't have such problem with our 8i environment !
That's why I was thinking about any special privilege/setup missing in our 10g environment / configuration...
Any idea or advice?
Thanks,
Olivier

Answer 1

Hi Olivier
The problem is that the operative system hasn’t written the file yet, even though the fclose command as been executed.
I used this type of code to check if the file is closed in the file system.
loop
l_counter := l_counter + 1;
if webutil_file.file_size('c:\myBatch.bat') > 0 then
CLIENT_HOST(myCommand);
exit;
end if;
if l_counter > 100 then
SET_ALERT_PROPERTY('UI_ERROR',alert_message_text,'Timeout. Copy can not be completed, due to file not being released by file system.' );
l_button := show_alert('UI_ERROR');
     exit;
end if;
end loop;
Hope this will help you solve the problem
Cheers
Nils Peter