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RE: need an 8.0.5 client and an 8.1.7 client on same machine

From: Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) <Bruce.Reardon_at_comalco.riotinto.com.au>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:43:42 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.003932EC.20010919212018@fatcity.com>

Doug,

There is an Oracle home selector that could be run before starting the appropriate application (alters path & possibly does things to registry as well).

This should guarantee the application finding the correct dll's etc.

However, the home selector is a GUI application and I don't believe it has a command line interface (I remember reading a Metalink article on this but I don't currently have Internet access available). You could use a Windows scripting tool (eg Microsoft scriptit) to pass keystrokes into the home selector but I haven't tried it.

Also, you may need to put the tns_admin variable into the registry as well as the environment variable - see Metalink Note:1020336.102 details here.

All this said, have you tried using the 817 client with the other application - it might work (but whether the vendor would support it is another questions).

HTH,
Bruce Reardon

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2001 1:55

Thanks.. I will try this.. Is there anything else to be concerned about? Paths
etc? I think there's a chance that the respective apps will find the correct
dll's in the correct bin directory automatically, but I'm not sure. Any problem anticipated with that?

Thanks,
Doug

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:05:19 -0800, you wrote:

>Doug,
>
>I wrote the below without noticing that it was a winframe server.
>I haven't used a winframe server before.
>So, if it was a normal PC I would do what is below. I would probably do
the
>same thing on a winframe server - I would just want to try it on a test
>server first.
>
>805 on NT is not multiple-home compliant.
>So, you need to install 805 before you install 817 (install them into
>separate homes).
>
>So what I would do is:
>
>Backup Oracle configuration files
>Do a total remove of Oracle off the client (ie registry, files, icons etc)
>Install 8.0.5 (eg into \oracle\product\805)
>Install 8.1.7 into its own home (eg into \oracle\product\817)
>
>I would maintain only 1 set of Oracle networking files.
>eg create d:\oracle\admin\tns_admin
>Create a system environment variable tns_admin with a value of
>d:\oracle\admin\tns_admin
>
>Put sqlnet.ora and tnsnames.ora into d:\oracle\admin\tns_admin
>
>Regards,
>Bruce Reardon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2001 10:49
>
>I need to get an 8.0.5 client and an 8.1.7 client working on the same
>machine.
>Currently, the 8.1.7 is the only one installed. This is an NT
>winframe/metaframe server running NT 4.0. Some apps use the 8.1.7 client
>and
>some will require the 8.0.5.
>
>Any suggestions before I start the surgery?
>
>Thanks,
>Doug

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