On 05/26/2006 09:05:04 PM, Magnus Andersen wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Is there a way to print to a printer from a stored procedure without > using external procedures? I'd like to issue the equivalent to "lpr > -o raw -P printer_name file_name" where the file_name is replaced with > a variable. Yes, it is possible to do that. The best canned way to do so that I'm aware of is to install extproc_perl. Of course, if you don't want to do that, you can always resort to UTL_HTTP and a CGI procedure which would accept the file argument and send it to the desired printer. > > I'm running Oracle 9.2.0.7 on RHEL 3. The printer I'm trying to print > to is a Zebra label printer. Oh, Zebra! That's something entirely different! You can't do that. This works only for HP printers. No grazing animals allowed. -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mgogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l