Re: Perl on Linux net access to Oracle...?

In comp.databases.oracle.misc Darrell Berry <darrellb_at_hhcl.com> wrote:
: Our Oracle 7 servers run on Solaris 2.5+ and NT...I want to connect to
: them using Perl 5 on a Linux Slackware 3 machine...
 

: Looking thru the CPAN database driver and interface modules, it seems
: these will only work if there's a preëxisting Oracle install on the client
: machine (with SQL*Net etc already installed)...given that there's no
: Oracle release for Linux ;-) is there any way to do what I want to do?

I've heard that the SCO UNIX version of SQL*Net may work under linux if you have the SCO libraries installed. Never tried to do this so I don't know the details. Hope this helps.

Later,
Steven
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