Re: FYI - NEW Oracle news groups

Are you concerned over the distruction of Comp.Databases.Oracle?

Don't be! There is a much better substitute! Get in touch with people who know how to answer your questions - just as accessable as the newsgroups - but on the web!

All you need is your C.S.I. number (which you can get from your DBA).

URL: http://support.oracle.com/MetaLink/

                                  About MetaLink

Availability

MetaLink is available for the following products and product families:

     Enterprise Server Technologies 
          Oracle Rdb 
          Oracle DBMS 
          Oracle7 RDBMS 

     UNIX Installation, Relinking and Core Dump Support 
          UNIX RDBMS 
          UNIX Developer/2000 - Coming Soon! 
          UNIX Video Server - Coming Soon! 

     Networking and Internet Products 
          Oracle PowerBrowser 
          Oracle SQL*Net 
          Oracle WebServer 

     Desktop Servers and Utilities Support 
          Microsoft Servers and Utilities 
          Novell Servers and Utilities 
          IBM OS/2 Servers and Utilities 

     Desktop Languages Support 
          Precompilers - Coming Soon! 
          Middleware - Coming Soon! 

     New Media Technologies 
          Oracle Video Server - Coming Soon! 

     Programmer/2000 
          Oracle Precompilers 
          Oracle SQL*Module 
          Oracle PL/SQL 
          Oracle Call Interface 
          Oracle Procedure Builder 

Organization

MetaLink has a separate technical library for each product it supports. Each library has several areas:

     The hot-topics area presents 
          the product's lastest version 
          alerts 
          desupport notices 
          the product's top product articles. 
     The installation-assistance area includes 
          step-by-step installation instructions 
          installation manuals 
          release notes 
          README files 
          product updates. 
     The technical-support knowledge base lets you execute a full
text-query against all published data in the following
     categories: 
          technical-support bulletins 
          product articles 
          product-enhancement requests 
          alerts 
          README files 
          white papers 
          release notes 
          step-by-step installation instructions. 
     The product-reference area offers 
          product documentation 
          lists of supported product versions 
          technical-support bulletins 
          white papers. 
     In the technical forum, Oracle technical analysts and Oracle
customers post and respond to technical questions. To
     learn more about how to use a technical forum, please review the

File Formats

The following standard binary file formats are used in MetaLink:

     Macintosh BINHEX (.hqx) 
     Macintosh Self-Extracting (.sea) 
     Windows Archive (.zip) 
     Windows Executable/Self-Extracting (.exe) 
     UNIX Archive (.tar) 
     UNIX Compressed (.Z) 
     Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) 

Items with hyperlinks require additional software to view and/or use. Follow the hyperlinks to the site where you can download your own version of the software. Please note that Oracle does not provide support for these software titles.

Version

The service goes into production at Oracle OpenWorld, 1996. After that, Oracle Worldwide Support will update MetaLink's content and product-support offerings continually. Worldwide Support will also add new features and functionality to MetaLink quarterly.

'Keystroke'
KeystrkTX_at_AOL.COM Received on Thu Nov 14 1996 - 00:00:00 CET