Re: FREE -- Oracle 8i download for NT and Solaris...

You must have problems with your downloads? The dev60.zip is OK, your version is possibly truncated for some reason. Try to download from ftp.oracle.com with CuteFTP or some other FTP front end with resume capabilities then you'll see if your dev60.zip was the complete one.

HTH. Finn

<kmcallorum_at_my-dejanews.com> wrote in message news:7hckek$kmm$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> has anyone been able to download this tar file correctly. It seems to
> be complete waste of time to go through and download a tar if it has
> been corrupted from the get go. All the files have the wrong filenames
> and nulls fill the void. It could be encrypted by a key but ustar and
> cpio and tar do not work. Any replies would be helpful.
> Also, the technet.oracle.com zips seems to corrupt. dev60.zip is not a
> zip? What's going on at oracle that all the developers tools are being
> posted corrupt. The Linux EE is also bad.
> K.
>
> In article <7gafr2$4ms$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> stillinr_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:
> > In article <01be8591$4d8fe2a0$24921e18_at_test>,
> > "Mr. Oracle" <mroracle_at_oracle.net> wrote:
> > > This is the best database server on planet Earth. Nothing compares
> to Oracle
> > 8i.
> > >
> > > ====================
> > > The Sun Solaris version is available at:
> > > ftp://ftp.oracle.com/pub/www/otn/tech_tracks/orcl815sol/oracle8i.tar
> > >
> > > The Windows NT version is available at:
> > >
> ftp://ftp.oracle.com/pub/www/otn/tech_tracks/orcl815nt/oracle815nt.zip
> > > ====================
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Mr. Oracle ...
> >
> > I downloaded your oracle8i.tar file, for solaris. I un-tarred it, and
> > tryed to follow the installation instructions on the
> technet.oracle.com
> > web site. I could not even find a runInstaller file in the tar file.
> I did
> > find a file called "runinsta", which when I tried to run it, it came
> back
> > and said "Exec format error".
> >
> > My question is -- is there something wrong with the oracle8i.tar
> file on
> > the ftp.oracle,com site? If so, any idea when this might get fixed?
> >
> > Thanks for your time --
> >
> > ron stillinger
> >
> > drwho_at_instruct.library.orst.edu
> >
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Received on Thu May 13 1999 - 04:11:49 CDT