Re: Metalink down

In the registry they are single \'s. When you export the registry to a text file it converts them to \\. --
Chuck

Norman Dunbar <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote in news:E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA703F9AF62_at_lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk:

> Hi Chuck,
>
> I'm a bit puzzled by your double '\\' in the registry entrries - are
> you a C programmer by any chance ?
> In my registry (home0, home1 etc) I do not have '\\' only '\' and it
> 'just works' for me.
>
> HTH
>
> Cheers,
> Norm.
>
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> Norman Dunbar
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> Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck [mailto:chuckh_at_softhome.net]
> Posted At: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:57 PM
> Posted To: server
> Conversation: Metalink down
> Subject: Re: Metalink down
>
>
> Since I didn't want to have to put it in multiple places in the
> registry I
> did it as a system environment variable. It's ignoring it. I also
> tried it
> in HKLM\Software\Oracle. It used to work there but doesn't any more. I
> just
> tried it in each HKLM\Software\Oracle\Home<n> and it's still ignoring
> all
> of them.
>
> Here's my environment variable...
> TNS_ADMIN=d:\oracle\ora920\network\admin
>
> Here's my registry keys...
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME0]
> "TNS_ADMIN"="d:\\oracle\\ora920\\network\\admin"
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME1]
> "TNS_ADMIN"="d:\\oracle\\ora920\\network\\admin"
>
>
> The only home that succesfully finds the tns_admin directory is home2
> which
> is the one who's oracle home directory is d:\oracle\ora920.
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 31 2003 - 10:36:41 CDT