hi,
to my knowledge the error message returned by oracle is not correct.
am i correct.
In this example i hv not given the path, i hv not opened the file.

when am i suppose to get this error message????
"User-Defined Exception"

SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf

1 declare
2 s varchar2(10);
3 ftyp UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
4 begin
5 s:='abc';
6 utl_file.put_line(ftyp,s);
7 exception when others then
8 dbms_output.put_line('err >>> '||sqlcode||sqlerrm);
9* end;
SQL> set serverout on
SQL> /
err >>> 1User-Defined Exception