Re: Registry or environment vars?

Nick Williamson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Can someone explain *just* how reliant Oracle 9i is on environment variables
> in the Win32 environment? Looking at the registry, I see that ORACLE_BASE,
> ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID are all defined there, but I know from experience
> that Oracle doesn't always behave itself unless at least some of them are
> set as environment variables too. Is there a clear distinction between some
> Oracle tools that use the registry and some that use environment vars? Is it
> good practice to set up those vars just in case?
>
> TIA
> Nick

There is no need for any of these variables to be defined outside the registry.

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