Re: ORACLE.INI and NT

denise collins wrote:
>
> We are currently testing our Oracle applications on WIN 95 & NT 4.0.
> So far (touch wood) we have not encountered any major problems,
> however I have found that for some end-users on NT machines
> the Oracle.ini file needs to be in the C:\WINNT and that on others
> it has to be in the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory. I am at a loss to
> understand the difference.
>
> In both cases the WINDIR directory is C:\WINNT and the NT path is
> C:\WINNT\SYSTEMS32;C:\WINNT
>
> All these machines are new pentiums and have not had WIN 95 OR win 3.1
> previously installed.
>
> Please could someone fill in my obviously large gap in knowledge
> or point me to a book that could help me.
>
> Regards, Denise.

If my memory serves me right on Win16, the location of the Oracle.ini file was pointed at from a setting in the [Oracle] section in *win.ini*. Something like the following would be typical:

[Oracle]
ORA_CONFIG=C:\ORAWIN\ORACLE.INI Steve Phelan. Received on Sun Mar 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CST