Re: help: how do you find oracle home on windows

From: Vsevolod Afanassiev <vafanassiev_at_aapt.com.au>
Date: 18 Jul 2002 02:13:45 -0700
Message-ID: <4f7d504c.0207180113.73bfa432_at_posting.google.com>


[Quoted] By using file "oracle.key". This is how it works 1. You can have multiple ORACLE_HOME since 8.0.5. Installer asks into what ORACLE_HOME to install.
2. Every time a new ORACLE_HOME is created, a new entry in the registry is also created.
3. In ORACLE_HOME\bin you find a small text file "oracle.key". It is created during installation and it points to the corresponding ORACLE_HOME
entry in the registry.
4. When you start Oracle utility like SQL*Plus, it looks for file "oracle.key" located in the same directory as the utility itself. It reads the file, and then find the section in the Registry.

See Oracle8i Administrator's Guide
Release 2 (8.1.6) for Windows NT
Jan 2000
Part No 73008-01
Page 3-12 Received on Thu Jul 18 2002 - 11:13:45 CEST

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