Message-Id: <10542.110718@fatcity.com> From: Val_Gamerman/Victoria_Financial.VICTORIA_FINANCIAL@lnn.com Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:50:04 -0400 Subject: Re: SQLNet V1 issue to support Dynacomm 16-bit app. Marc, Thanks, I think I understand how they did it -- we have a similar setup one 2 PCs that are used similar to what you are describing. Thanks everybody. For a second there, a hope revived inside of me that we can move the darn thing to Win'95 (we are stuck with an old application that is in the process of being rewritten but the existing one will be around for some time still :-( Val Gamerman. To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com cc: Val Gamerman/Victoria Financial@VICTORIA FINANCIAL From: MTPConsulting@aol.com @ NOTES NET Date: 06/28/2000 07:35:59 PM GMT Subject: Re: SQLNet V1 issue to support Dynacomm 16-bit app. Val, I don't know if this is useful to you or not, but I was running an old application using Oracle 5.1A and Forms 2.2 under stand-alone Windows 95 for the last several years. You had to reboot Win95 into DOS mode, but it was set up using a MS-DOS icon on the desktop and then when done using Oracle, the user rebooted by typing EXIT and was back in Win95. This application was intermittently used, so this was an acceptable solution because it let the user utilize real Win95 software the rest of the time. If this is useful, let me know and I can send details. Marc Perkowitz MTP Systems Consulting In a message dated 6/28/00 10:23:16 AM Central Daylight Time, Val_Gamerman/Victoria_Financial.VICTORIA_FINANCIAL@lnn.com writes: << Eric, Did you actually get it to work on a Win'95 machine? When you say you were using the "client32" DOS drivers what do you mean? The only reason I am asking is that the only way we could get it to work was on a DOS machine (Win 3.1). I did not try to hard setting it up on Win'95 pretty much because I assumed that a DOS application will not have a way of using a 32 bit IP stack. Please shed the light on this as I would like to move all this Win'95. Thanks, Val. To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L cc: (bcc: Val Gamerman/Victoria Financial) Date: 06/28/2000 02:14:06 AM GMT FWIW, don't forget that Oracle's extended memory manager for DOS ("sqlpme.exe") is also required (NOT COMPATIBLE WITH A DOS BOX IN WIN9x!!!). Ahhh, remember the "good old days" when you had to fit your network drivers and all that sh*t into 640K RAM? Anyways, per the appended SQL*Net v2-lite documentation, the TCP/IP vendors supported are: OWS> a) FTP OWS> b) Novell OWS> c) PCNFS (we used it with Novell's "client32" DOS drivers and Netware 3.1x) example connect string syntax: OWS> SQLFORMS SCOTT/TIGER@t:184.34.78.32/1521:ora -C BIOS have fun, ep > ... I believe Oracle (somewhere in the deep dark back room) > may have a version of SQL*Net V2 Lite that may save your bacon. Whether or not > it will support your protocol may be a sticky point. I've a copy (somewhere) > for TCP/IP but it required a specific vendors TCP stack to work. >>