Re: Confused over forward slashes under windows - anybody?

joel-garry_at_home.com says...

> > OracleohomePagingServer
> > G:\oracle\ora92/bin/pagntsrv.exe
> > Why the forward slashes in the names of these services?
 

> I asked support that when I noticed a whole lot of the conf files in
> OAS have mixtures like that, but never really got an answer. I would
> guess it has something to do with solutions to cross-platform issues
> making the difference moot.

I don't think the difference is moot. Try to create a file under windows with a '/' and you won't be allowed.  

> Where do you see this? Under Properties of Manage Services?

Oracle 9.2.0.1.0 - W 2000 Pro

Settings - Control Panel - Admin tools - Services, then go down the list of services till you find

OracleohomePagingServer

then double click on that service and you get the properties, in this there is 'Path to executable' where you will find

G:\oracle\ora92/bin/pagntsrv.exe

There is a file G:\oracle\ora92\bin\pagntsrv.exe, but I can't see anything about backslashes. I did try changing to run automatically, but can't see that this made any difference. I don't want to do too much in case I screw up my system.

I am very puzzled by this - can anyone explain what is going on?

Thanks for your interest.

Paul...

> jg

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