Updating TNSNAMES.ORA file from the command line?

[Quoted] [Quoted] We have an application that uses a variety of databases on our clients sites. They need access to these databases and our installation program needs to configure their TNSNAMES.ORA and SQLNET.ORA files correctly to connect up and run our application. (The databases which need to be configured are normally in flux, we'd like a dynamic way of updating the
clients oracle configuration.)

Two problems:
1. If we modify the either of these files outside of the SQLNet Easy Configuration utility the file(s) are marked as invalid, and the next time you do use the try to use the utility the changes the installtion program made are lost.
2. Also it's a time consuming task to parse through this file and determine if an entry for a database already exists in the file, and if so to update the entry correctly with new information.

Does anyone know of a way to update this file from the command line or a [Quoted] utility that would do this ? And also possibly have the changes be accepted by the SQL Net Easy Config?

Any help or info is appreciated. Please send a copy of your response to Sheila.Hatfield_at_experian.com
Thanks!

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Sheila Hatfield
Software Engineer, Experian Database Marketing Solutions -- Denver, CO Sheila.Hatfield_at_experian.com Received on Fri Dec 04 1998 - 00:00:00 CET