Re: oracle 10G for windows, strange PATH problem leading to wrong executable versions

"FC" <flavio_at_tin.it> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I installed 10g (along with the cd companion) on a machine with 9i and 8i
as
> well and I encountered a strange problem with PATH variable.
> As suggested in a README I installed the companion CD stuff in a separate
> oracle home and as a result I had a lot of stuff in the PATH variable
prior
> to the path to the 10G bin directory. Now, apparently everything was ok, I
> visually checked the order of the paths and the 10g bin directory was the
> first to appear in the list. Nevertheless issuing sqlplus from the command
> line started version 9.2.
> Of course calling the command with its full path name worked correctly, so
I
> thought, it must have been a PATH setting.
> Then I went to the Universal Installer of 10G and changed the order of the
> oracle homes from the "Environment" tab, promoting 10g as the first one in
> list (it was the second because I installed the cd companion stuff, as I
> said).
> After doing this operation sqlplus version 10g was invoked correctly.
>
> So, assuming I overlooked something when manually checking the path list
the
> first time, I still wonder what may have caused this because I didn't
tamper
> with PATH since I installed 10g and I was also using a newly created user
> account with no custom environment settings.
>
> Has anyone else run into this problem?
>
> Bye,
> Flavio
>
>

open up a dos prompt

echo %PATH%

whats it say Received on Sun Jul 18 2004 - 17:33:11 CDT