Re: oracle.ini file format : a new standard ?
Date: 1996/02/15
Message-ID: <kmajkutDMsLo3.M5o_at_netcom.com>#1/1
In article <4fl5m6$mvs_at_news.belgium.eu.net>,
Andre Vergison <avergison_at_infosoft.be> wrote:
>ORACLE.INI looks completely like win.ini and system.ini, a so-called
>inifile.
>Inifiles have entries grouped within sections (names between [] ). Every
>entry is meaningful within its section.
>Inifiles are normally read and written using Win SDK routines
>GetProfileString() and WriteProfileString(), or using their private
>versions.
>
>Well, in my ORACLE.INI file I did REMOVE ALL SECTION HEADERS.
>Everything (dev2000 1.2) did continue to work fine...
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>Restoring the section names and moving entries across sections wasn't a
>problem too. Everything worked fine.
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>In fact the sections headers in ORACLE.INI seem to be COMMENT fields ...
>
>In fact I lost many hours with all this, since I wanted to save a
>second set of entries in section [Oracle] under the name [OracleTest],
>sort of having multiple configs in a single inifile, a technique
>frequently used in other inifiles. But Oracle - of course - simply took
>the later entries found in the file, thus those in [OracleTest] ...
You're right that it only look like an INI file.
You can also add settings to the [Oracle] section of WIN.INI, which can
contain an entry named ORA_CONFIG which would point to ORACLE.INI.
I suggest a batch file and copying one config to the other....
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Received on Thu Feb 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CET