Of course if you specify an alternative you can specify a path in it. On 9/8/05, oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Not from what I've seen - with 9.2.0.6 <http://9.2.0.6> on Win2K3, when I > run spreport.sql it saves the the output in my current working directory. > You can see from the following lines in sprepins.sql (called by > spreport.sql) that it just spools to your current directory: > > prompt > prompt Specify the Report Name > prompt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > prompt The default report file name is &dflt_name.. To use this name, > prompt press <return> to continue, otherwise enter an alternative. > > set heading off; > column report_name new_value report_name noprint; > select 'Using the report name ' || nvl('&&report_name','&dflt_name') > , nvl('&&report_name','&dflt_name') report_name > from sys.dual; > spool &report_name; > set heading on; > prompt -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com