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Re: Re[2]: var source_data varchar2(12)

From: Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 18:04:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D6DDC.20031116180426@fatcity.com>


Hi Mladen,

At 06:19 12-11-03 -0800, you wrote:
>SQL*Plus has a ghastly and disgusting user interface,
>implemented without "readline" or equivalent, which would give a command
>history.
>Littering the system with those @#$%! afiedt.buf files is bad enough but line
>editting commands are an indicator of how much oracle cares for the user
>interface.

<snip>
>and sqlplus is definitely not something that I'd like presenting to my users.

Do you know how SQL*Plus was called during Oracle V4? (And maybe earlier, but this is as far as my history with Oracle goes)

They called it UFI, which means User Friendly Interface!

Regards, Carel-Jan

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