Re: Can not install online help in 8i

I remember reading in either Release Notes or Help table installation README that beginning with 8i, only SQL*Plus help is available from SQL> prompt. You have to use online (meaning from the CD or CD content installed on your harddrive, or real online such as at Technet Web site) to get the SQL help. It doesn't bother me because I find going to technet to look for SQL help is very fast. But I also installed Oracle documentation on my client computer so that I can do a "find files containing text including files in subfolders" which you can't do at technet.

Yong Huang
yhuang_at_indigopool.com

<sadenwala_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8o6g48$ais$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> In oracle 7, at sqlplus prompt, I could type "help alter table" to get
> a syntax help.
>
> In oracle 8i, I ran helpins with system id and its password, which
> installed help. But with this, all I get is help with the SQLPLUS
> commands (like how to use ttitle, etc). I get message "help not
> available" when I type "help alter table".
>
> Do I need to run anything else to get SQL help?
>
> thanks in advance.
>
>
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Received on Fri Aug 25 2000 - 17:00:34 CDT