reading oracle dumps

Hello !

To get Oracle-Data into another database (without SQL*net being available on the client machine), we're trying to export a database (on a Novell Server) into a dump, ftp the dump and update our database.

Is there any description of the Oracle dump format ? As far as we've seen, in front of each field there is it's length encoded, but no idea about the header.

        Thank you in advance ... Michael Wildpaner

PS: We would also appreciate any pointers to a more elegant method to query

    a novell-oracle database via tcpip. The clients will be linux machines.

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