Re: API's for Oracle

Hi:

If there isn't an Oracle client for BSD (and I don't think there is, but = I might be wrong), then they won't have a direct way to do this. They = *could* write a socket client on BSD that talks to a socket server on = NT, which in turn connects to the Oracle database. That's pretty = complicated, though.

I'd call Oracle Support with this one. They may have an Oracle client = for BSD. You need the Oracle SQL*Net or NET8 client, including the = Oracle OCI7 or OCI8 libraries and includes.

Good luck!

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David C. Sisk
The Unofficial ORACLE on NT site
http://www.ipass.net/~davesisk/oont.htm

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    Some programmers are writing an application in C to run against my = Oracle database. The question deals with Oracle's API. My Oracle is on a = box running NT. The developers are writing the C application on a box = with an O/S called OpenBSD. Technet doesn't have any info about = OpenBSD.What has been explained to me is that the same C program written = on three different O/S's will compile three different (unique to the = O/S) executable files. C apparently doesn't compile the same on NT as = Solaris as OpenBSD. The question I have for the newsgroup is this: If = Oracle does not have a client API for OpenBSD or offer their client = source code in a form such that it can be ported to OpenBSD, what is the = easiest way for the programmers' program to execute calls against my = database?? They said they'll make it work with any solution I can find, = as long as they can use THEIR COMPILER . Thank you all in advance for = any help you may be able to lend.

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