The External Compatibility Package (excompat) is an implementation of some PL/SQL system packages. The naming convention is _ e.g. utl_file.fopen() is utl_file_fopen(). The following routines are avialable: UTL_FILE package function utl_file_fopen procedure utl_file_fclose procedure utl_file_get_line procedure utl_file_put procedure utl_file_new_line procedure utl_file_put_line procedure utl_file_putf procedure utl_file_fflush procedure utl_file_fclose_all DBMS_OUTPUT package procedure dbms_output_enable procedure dbms_output_disable procedure dbms_output_put procedure dbms_output_put_line procedure dbms_output_new_line procedure dbms_output_get_line procedure dbms_output_get_lines DBMS_LOB package procedure dbms_lob_append procedure dbms_lob_append function dbms_lob_getlength function dbms_lob_getlength function dbms_lob_compare procedure dbms_lob_copy procedure dbms_lob_copy procedure dbms_lob_erase procedure dbms_lob_erase function dbms_lob_substr function dbms_lob_instr procedure dbms_lob_read procedure dbms_lob_trim procedure dbms_lob_trim procedure dbms_lob_write function dbms_lob_new_clob procedure dbms_lob_append function dbms_lob_compare DBMS_ALERT procedure dbms_alert_register function dbms_alert_get_event_id procedure dbms_alert_remove procedure dbms_alert_removeall procedure dbms_alert_set_defaults function dbms_alert_get_defaults procedure dbms_alert_signal procedure dbms_alert_waitone procedure dbms_alert_waitany procedure dbms_alert_wait