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Dan Lynch (mohawk_at_interlog.com) wrote:
: blaine_at_freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
: : So what is the solution? Can this version of Oracle be installed on a
: : Win 95 PC? Do I need to upgrade to a newer version? Is there a trick
: : that I missed?
: In a nutshell, the Win 3.x version cannot be installed on Win95. You'll need the Win95 version
: (probably 7.3 by now). It may still be available from the Oracle web site (www.oracle.com) for
: 'evaluation' purposes.
Thank you.
I do have a Win 3.1 machine onto which I will install Oracle. I need to see how VB 5.0 in Win 95 can use Oracle databases, so I can transfer the database files (once I create them) onto the 95 machine.
Will this work, or are the database files themselves also incompatible?