Re: Can not install online help in 8i

I don't use the SQL+ help product, but if you do a custom install you will see many things checked. These are, I believe, the things Oracle would install if you chose a default install rather than a custom install. At the bottom of the list is an item "SQL*Plus Help" which is unchecked. Did you do a custom install and did you choose this item?

Van

"Yong" <yhuang_at_indigopool.com> wrote in message news:8o6qfa$stl$1_at_news.sinet.slb.com...
> I remember reading in either Release Notes or Help table installation
 README
> that beginning with 8i, only SQL*Plus help is available from SQL> prompt.
> You have to use online (meaning from the CD or CD content installed on
 your
> harddrive, or real online such as at Technet Web site) to get the SQL
 help.
> It doesn't bother me because I find going to technet to look for SQL help
 is
> very fast. But I also installed Oracle documentation on my client computer
> so that I can do a "find files containing text including files in
> subfolders" which you can't do at technet.
>
> Yong Huang
> yhuang_at_indigopool.com
>
> <sadenwala_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message
 news:8o6g48$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.
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
>
Received on Fri Aug 25 2000 - 17:21:57 CDT