Re: Problems installing Oracle products. PATH variable too long?

In message <1144365110.137505_at_yasure.drizzle.com>, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> writes
>>> You have less on your machine than I have on mine. FAR LESS!
>>>
>>> And XP SP2 does NOT do what you claim. I have XP SP2 on my machine. I
>>> have the database. I have the entire Developer Suite including
>>> JDeveloper. I have Oracle and other products you've likely never even
>>> heard of. My path is far less than 1000 characters.
>>>
>>> Instead of telling us what you can't do ... copy the path into a post
>>> and show it to us.
>> Do try and apply a bit of common sense before you fly off the
>>handle.
>> XP SP2 increases the maximum size of the PATH variable to 2048. The
>>OP wants to know why OUI complains about the PATH being longer than
>>1023 and if there is anything he can do about it. Can you provide
>>any useful input on that or are you just ranting?
>
>Not flying off the handle and amazingly enough I can read.
>
>I can read posts and I can count characters.
>

You have just shown that you can't - or can't be bothered to - read. Read my post again.

>Here's a PATH variable from an XP SP2 machine.
>

<SNIP>

>
>I count 558 characters. Microsoft Word's toolset agrees. Do you see
>2048 characters?
>

The issue is not the size of the path on your machine it is the size of the path on the OP's target machines. His path is apparently somewhere between 1023 and 2048.
>
>Now you can accuse me of a rant if you wish

I do. Its irrelevant

>but that won't solve the
>problem. We need to see the actual PATH ... not some statement about
>how XP SP2 increases the length of the PATH variable to 2048 chars.
>That is if the point of this is to solve the problem.
>
>My OUI has no problem. Neither it seems do a lot of other people's OUI.
>So the problem is not XP SP2.

The OP never said the problem was XP SP2 - the problem is with OUI when the path is large.

-- 
Jim Smith
I'm afraid you've mistaken me for someone who gives a damn.