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From: pkrueger@willow207.cray.com (Paul Krueger)
Subject: Re: HELP NEEDED! -- Interfacing MCL to ORACLE
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Date: 2 May 96 08:32:27 CDT


In article <4m9bno$3l3@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, bobschaaf@aol.com (Bobschaaf) writes:
> Winton Davies (wdavies@cs.stanford.edu) asks:
> 
> >    I need some quick tips on how to go about interfacing MCL 3.0 to
> > Personal Oracle 7 for the Mac. 
> 
> >     Oracle has a series of API calls (but I don't know where the
> libraries
> > are, or how LISP would know where to look -- maybe the Mac takes care of
> > this black magic). I have a number of C header files which give the call
> > definitions in C. 
> 
> The short answer is, "You can't!" The library in question is
> OracleOci71Lib
> in the Libraries folder. It is a PPC native shared library, so you'll have
> to
> wait for the PPC version (MCL 3.9) to link it. Sorry.
> 
> Bob Schaaf
> 

Isn't there an apple-events protocol for database interface that Apple defined?
If Oracle 7 supports it, then perhaps that could be used.

Paul Krueger
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