Re: Accessing Oracle8i Data on a FreeBSD System

2004-03-07 Thread Martin Welk
An Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:39:14PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: (...) There is a linux distribution available on the Oracle web site called linux81701.tar, but it appears to be for those wishing to run an oracle8I server. What we are trying to do is: Receive data from the

Re: Accessing Oracle8i Data on a FreeBSD System

2004-03-07 Thread Martin McCormick
Many thanks. It looks like our work is cut out for us. Martin Welk writes: Well, I think the Oracle 8i distribution for Oracle includes an Oracle client. I'm not sure if it is possible to install this stand-alone, but at least you could give it a try.

Accessing Oracle8i Data on a FreeBSD System

2004-03-05 Thread Martin McCormick
I have just been thrust in to unknown waters when it comes to data bases. I will be writing scripts which live on a FreeBSD Unix system and which will query a Pinnacle server on another host. The only oracle client for FreeBSD is oracle7-client. There is also oracle7 support in the