Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle.server:44330 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!news.he.net!news.or.nw.verio.net!news.ykm.com Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:05:37 -0800 Message-ID: <36FC05A8.6912B083@mail.ru> From: Uncle Jah Organization: private person X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jseeman@hq.dir.ca.gov Subject: Re: Recovering from Damaged Export File References: <7deltk$h2c$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 Hello, jseeman About year ago I wrote some code (C++, DOS) to recover data from damaged by wrong NLS_LANG settings export file for oracle 7. I haven't seen Oracle 6 export files, but I think that not very much things changed there. So, I'll think that your problem can be solved. Regards, Igor E. Poteryaev jseeman@hq.dir.ca.gov wrote: > > I am unable to import crucial data from an export file generated in Oracle 6 > (okay, so I'm a dinosaur). I'm getting the message "IMP-00009: abnormal end > of export file." Assuming that the export file contains some usable data, > but that some damage to the file prevents me from importing it, can I modify > the file or use some low-level programming techniques to extract the data? > Through grep I can see that references to my table exist all over the dump > file, so SOMETHING is there. I'd appreciate any help you can give me. Thank > you. > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own