Yeah, my Solaris 9 looks a bit odd as well..... devora2_(dvl1)$sqlplus mbobak@dvl1 <mailto:mbobak@dvl1> SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.7.0 - Production on Wed Feb 1 07:41:03 2006 Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Enter password: Connected to: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.7.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning and OLAP options JServer Release 9.2.0.7.0 - Production SQL> select dbms_utility.port_string from dual; PORT_STRING ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- SVR4-be-64bit-8.1.0 SQL> !uname -a SunOS devora2 5.9 Generic_118558-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Oracle Architect ProQuest Information & Learning "There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't." ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Sharples Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 6:05 AM To: Stephane Faroult Cc: onkarnath.tiwary@xxxxxxxxx; gorbyx@xxxxxxxxx; ORACLE-L Subject: Re: running os command from pl/sql block slight warning Some OS'es will appear kinda weird, would then have to use some sort of decode to make it more readable e.g. XP Prof SQL> select dbms_utility.port_string from dual; PORT_STRING --------------------------------------------------------- IBMPC/WIN_NT-8.1.0 Its not an IBM either, its a dell :-) SQL> select decode(dbms_utility.port_string, 'IBMPC/WIN_NT-8.1.0','Windows XP Professional') from dual; DECODE(DBMS_UTILITY.POR ----------------------- Windows XP Professional On 2/1/06, Stephane Faroult <sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Good one. I learned something new today.
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