Re: Oracle 6 under Win95

well i wouldnt say that i am an old timer, but do have the unfortunate responsibility to support oracle 5 thru 8 in my company.

there were rumors prior to my arrival that somebody has gotten oracle6 working in win95. i have never seen evidence of that.

the way we get around it is by exiting out to dos (shutdown; restart in ms-dos mode) and then running the database there. the other thing you might run into is that the older oracle has a hard time with physical memory larger than 32mb. again our solution is to use emm386 to create a 32mb expanded memory area ( in a sense the sqlpme never sees the all of the physical memory just the 32mb expanded). just watch out for conventional memory (base), it tends to be very low.

i know all of this very ugly and dirty. if you are able to do this under win95 please share your success with me.

good luck....

..........oliver....
NewName_at_mel.switch.net.au wrote in message <01be395c$e343d300$36a320cb_at_default>...
>Yep, that's Oracle 6 under Windows 95/
>
>In order to support an upgrade from Forms3 to 4.5, I've installed Oracle 6,
>Forms 3.0 and Reportwriter 1.1 under Win95 (part of the 58 diskette
>installation set!)
>
>I remember I managed to get the product set running under Win3.1 at some
>stage even though it's basically a DOS product with strange extended memory
>features
>
>But I'm not having any luck under Win95 ... any old timers out there who
>have travelled this old road???
>
Received on Wed Jan 06 1999 - 11:19:59 CST