Re: tnsping, oracle and the oracle listener process

Yes, independence. I do not want to have to depend on any external binaries for this operation. I want my program to be independent of all other applications, it will depend only on itself. Besides, spawning out of VB and executing a program and then grabbing/parsing that data is not a good practice for many reasons.

L

"Roman Gelfand" <rgelfand_at_masmid.com> wrote in message news:8rd0ug$74g$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net...
> 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 - 19:36:35 CDT