Re: Oracle 8 NT Client: Wierdness with App's Icons' "Start in" Property

Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:32:54 -0700,
> Rich Travsky <rtravsky_at_REMOVETHISuwyo.edu>
> wrote in article <38AC9336.21A52584_at_REMOVETHISuwyo.edu>:
>
> > Now, we are running these through desktop shortcuts. IF we change the
> > icon's "Start in" property and point it to the Oracle bin directory,
> > all works well. As I said, this only happens on some machines, others
> > work fine with a property pointing to the apps' installed folder.
> >
> > Anybody have any idea as to what causes this? Is it ODBC? Some version
> > of some DLL somewhere? Environment variable? Service Pack?
> What program (i.e. "*.exe" file) gets launched? My guess is that
> the PATH variable hasn't been set to include the Oracle bin directory.
> Setting it in AUTOEXEC.BAT (you're running some variant of Windows?)
> is necessary to make it global. If the PATH is too long to allow
> more, have the shortcut point to the bin directory.

Yes, it's in the path; Oracle sticks it there. In fact, on my pc, which does the behavior described above, the orant\bin folder is *first* in the path!

Go figure. Received on Fri Feb 18 2000 - 10:02:19 CST