Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!newsfeeds-atl1.usenetserver.com!news.webusenet.com!pc01.webusenet.com!news.bellsouth.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Bob Redding" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc References: Subject: Re: Which patches? Lines: 22 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: <3FRz9.11966$IE2.1676@news.bellsouth.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:19:59 EST Organization: WEBUSENET.com Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:36:20 -0500 Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.misc:89210 X-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:35:12 MST (news.easynews.com) Oracle treats Windows 2000 as Windows NT. So just get the 8.1.7 client's latest patchset for NT, which should have all previous patches. Sometimes, there may be additional patches since the last patchset, but Metalink will tell you which. (I use NT and Windows 2000 clients.) "Vince Laurent" wrote in message news:mvmvsucmp8p44icj5i3iqn5cvmsqmhd6d9@4ax.com... > I am trying to set up an Oracle client on Windows 2000. In my > experience, all HP-UX, when I patched something I needed to get just > the latest and greatest for it contained all the previous patches. > > Looking through metalink it doesn't seem to be the same rule for > Win2K. So... anyone have a list of patches for the client side of an > Oracle (8.1.7) install on Win2K? I have access to metalink but I am > not sure which of the many patches I need nor what order. > > Thanks in advance! > Vince