Vince <vincent@ apparently said,on my timestamp of 4/05/2005 7:40 PM:

> But after parsing the file, SQLplus stays up and do not give hand back
> to the OS, displaying a number which seems to be a line number..and I
> must ctrl+c the app to then type 'exit'...

You forgot either a "/" or ";" to terminate and execute
the last SQL in the script.

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