Re: IMP Please Explanation

From: <stephen.howard_at_us.pwcglobal.com>
Date: 17 May 2005 09:35:07 -0700
Message-ID: <1116347707.682627.108840@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

I'm, not sure how it couldn't be an export file if Oracle provided that error message...

U:\>dir *txt
Volume in drive U is Data
Volume Serial Number is 844B-5019

Directory of U:\

12/14/2004  01:48p               2,434 oracle_mem_2004121415.txt
01/18/2005  04:58p               5,245 oracle_mem_2005011815.txt
02/25/2005  03:44p               7,784 oracle_mem_2005022514.txt
....
04/09/2005  09:12a                  83 rman.txt
              17 File(s)      1,319,041 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  34,216,611,840 bytes free

U:\>imp file=rman.txt

Import: Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production on Tue May 17 12:33:37 2005

Username: scott
Password:

Connected to: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production

IMP-00009: abnormal end of export file
IMP-00000: Import terminated unsuccessfully

U:\> Received on Tue May 17 2005 - 11:35:07 CDT