Re: Oracle and NT text-mode progs.

Richard 'Frog' Barrott <u952297_at_student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:

>I have a fairly interesting problem that I hope someone can help me with,
>or least point me in the right direction to solve.
 

>I need to be able to telnet to an NT server (which is running) an Oracle
>server, and then run a text-mode program that will perform queries and
>updates on an Oracle database.
 

>How do I do it ?

Version 7.3 of Oracle for NT includes a character mode version of sql*Plus (plus33.exe) in addition to the windows version (plus33w.exe). You might give that a try.

>The first part I have solved ; there are several telnetd-type programs
>for NT that allow you to telnet to the server.
>The trick bit (for me) is how do I write the text-mode program that can
>communicate with the database ?
 

>ANY help on this would be greatly appreciated.

>PS: If anyone is interested - I am trying to connect a bar-code reader,
>that is a hand-held PC, to the NT server. The networking side is
>straight-forward - via TCP/IP, but the database side is giving me trouble...
>If anyone has any better ways of doing this, I'm open to suggestions as well.
 

>Thanks very much in advance.

>- Richard 'Frog' Barrott
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Received on Wed Nov 06 1996 - 00:00:00 CST