Re: SQL+ and long named files : WARNING !

Hi,

16-bit SQL+?

Patrick Marcouly schrieb:
>
> Hello all.
>
> I'm a newbie and I've got a bad surprise today : SQLplus (my version is
> 3.3.2.0.2) can't manage files with names longger than 8 letters.
>
> Whatever the file name is, if it's longger than 8 lettres, SQLplus truncate
> the name to 8 positions.
>
> Exemple : if I write @c:\makebase2.SQL; , SQLplus will not say me something
> like "invalid file name", but it will do as I writed @c:\makebase.sql;
> forgetting my 9th letter.
>
> Bad luck : I had two files in my directory (MAKEBASE.SQL and MAKEBASE2.SQL)
> and SQLplus executed the wrong one, making big trouble in my database.
>
> So warning other newbies, never use long file names with SQLplus (in that
> version)!
>
> What about SQLplus in version 8 ?

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Regards

Matthias Gresz :-)

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