Visual Basic 4 & Oracle 7

I'm currently getting into programming at my company with Visual Basic 4.0

We have an Oracle 7.1 database running at 16-bit due to Peoplesoft recommendations (we're using Peoplesoft 3, and they only certify Oracle at 16-bit for some reason).

I am unable to install the Visigenic 32-bit driver that comes with Visual Basic 4.0 for Oracle databases due to some missing files, which it claims are required.

I am, however, able to use the 16-bit Oracle drivers that I have installed on my system (through Crystal Reports Professional) when I'm running 16-bit Visual Basic 4.0. That's not particularly acceptible, because I want to run 32-bit Visual Basic.

I'm also unable to find any particularly good information about 3rd party controls to access Oracle directly (we have a control provided by Apex Software to access Oracle directly - it worked under Visual Basic 3.0, but doesn't seem to work under VB4.0 - or perhaps it's not working with the current database version we have.)

Anyway.. I've heard about something called "OCI" (Oracle Call Interface?) which may be helpful, but if anyone out there can recommend a plan of action for me to be able to access our Oracle database from 32-bit Visual Basic 4.0, I would appreciate the help! OCI, 3rd party controls, solutions to using the Visigenic ODBC driver.. whatever..

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