What does ora7*win.dll do??

I was running rdbms 7.1.3 on the server, and upgraded to 7.1.6. Suddenly, I start getting GPFs in ora7win.dll on my clients. I've gotten a couple of intelligent responses from this newsgroup that say a workaround is to rename ora71win.dll to ora7win.dll. I haven't gotten around to testing all this again, so I can't vouch for the answer, but...

Does anyone know WHY I have an ora7win.dll and an ora71win.dll in c:\orawin\bin? What did Oracle intend when they packaged these two things in sqlnet v1.1.7.10? My application is hard-coded, I understand, to use ora7win.dll. Are other applications hard-coded to use one or the other? I'm quite confused about this.

If there is some documentation available that I can read, which will explain this, I'd like to know about it, too. Thanks.

Terry Phelps Received on Thu Feb 01 1996 - 00:00:00 CET