I suspect its using the string supplied as %ORACLE_HOME% for the first
part of those paths and is attaching a hard-coded /subdir/executablename
to that user-supplied path. I'll bet if you did an Oracle install on a
new box and set your oracle home as c:/oracle then you'd get all forward
slashes.
Paul wrote:
> sybrandb_at_yahoo.com says...
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>>>OK - a quick test shows that to work. My question is *_why_* does Oracle
>>>choose to have *_some_ and not all of its services specified in such a
>>>manner rather than using the windows convention?
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>>Because Oracle is an Unix product, and Windoze allows the Unix
>>conventions, as it stole several DOS-features from Unix.
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> Fine. My question was really more about *_why_* Oracle decided to retain
> one service (out of the nine I have on my machine) using the Unix style
> convention, whereas all the others use the Windows convention?
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>>If you don't like it, switch to a different product, where you will
>>find other problems.
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> It's not that I don't like it, I'm just curious as to the logic which
> led to such an approach, or was it just a simple oversight on the part
> of somebody somewhere?
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> Paul...
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>>Sybrand Bakker
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Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 16:00:28 CDT
