Re: tnsping, oracle and the oracle listener process

Is there a reason why you can not execute the os command from your program and parse/interpret the response?

Louis V. Frolio wrote in message <8r7fvh$18d$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net>...
>Greetings All, I am writing a VB app that interfaces with and Oracle
>database. One of
>the things that I would like to do is to mimic the functionality of the
>tnsping utility that comes
>with the Oracle client. So, my question is this. Does anybody know of
>where I can get my hands on specs for the protocol used when tnsping talks
>to the listener? Is there source code for tnsping anywhere? Does anybody
>know what tnsping asks of listener when tnsping is invoked? I was thinking
>of using a sniffer program to watch the request made by tnsping and the
>response that comes back from the listener. Any and all help would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Louis
>
>
Received on Tue Oct 03 2000 - 11:21:20 CDT