Re: Problems installing Oracle products. PATH variable too long?

From: Rauf Sarwar <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 10 Apr 2006 03:27:21 -0700
Message-ID: <1144664841.116153.91200@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

ginolard_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Look, quite what YOUR path has to do with mine I don't understand. I
> have several machines with paths greater than 1000 characters. That
> includes Oracle products as well as MANY proprietary applications that
> need their own entries. I don't see how posting the path contents
> could help solve the problem. Anyway, the problem is NOT with the
> contents of the PATH variable or whether or not we could shorten it.
> I'm sure we could but that's not the point. The point is that the
> Oracle OUI craps out when trying to add entries that takes it over 1023
> characters when XP SP2 explicity ALLOWS the path to be as long as 2048.
>
>
> Hence, the problem is not with my PATH, it's with the Oracle OUI. I
> don't see what's so difficult to comprehend.

If you strongly think that it's OUI then why not go to http://metalink.oracle.com and ask Oracle directly? After speaking with them, please post your findings here for the benefit of others.

Regards
/Rauf Received on Mon Apr 10 2006 - 05:27:21 CDT