Re: Installation of Oracle PE 8.1.7 for Win98

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Stjepan Brbot <Stjepan.Brbot_at_ZG.HiNet.HR>


[Quoted] "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 21:51:33 +0100, "Stjepan Brbot"


> <Stjepan.Brbot_at_ZG.HiNet.HR> wrote:

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> >Come on man, you forgot snake oil and powder of bat's wings...

> >

> >I have CD with Oracle Personal Edition 8.1.7 for Windows 98 and

simply


> >want to install it on my laptop. I do not need Developer/Designer


etc. I


> >just want to develop tools in VB (ODBC) that would use Oracle


database.


>

>

> The solution to get Oracle Pe working on the uncertified Win ME has


> been posted in this group several times. It involves hacking win.ini

> Please use the archives (and in general always use the archives before

> posting)

> As Personal Oracle comes with Oracle Objects for Ole, a dao like

> *native* interface which can be called from both Visual Basic and

> Visual C++, using  ODBC to interact with an Oracle database from VB is

> the worst choice you can make.


Thank you for your advice about using archives before posting, but I was
not able to find out the explanation how to install OraclePE on WinME in
this usenet group.

I found it on Internet. It's not so big hacking WIN.INI. Only thing one
should do is add line "JREW=0x00080000" in [Compatibility95] section of
WIN.INI file. That's it! After that installation works fine!

I'm only thinking about type of connection to Oracle DB... At this
moment I do not know enough about OO4O but according to your statement
above, I should look at this technology and use it instead of ODBC.

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Stjepan Brbot <Stjepan.Brbot_at_ZG.HiNet.HR>