Win98 and Oracle8 Questions

Hopefully this is a simple answer since I am new to Oracle8. But it appears that some people are haveing trouble with Win98 and Oracle Tools. Something about Net8 is not compatible and I have to use SQLNet2.3. I've installed both and thought that I have configured both correctly on my Win98 machine. Not positive but probably correct. But whenever I try to run a Oracle Tool and connect to my server the tool crashes.

My basic goal is to get a connection from a Win98 to an NT Oracle server to produce a small vb sample application? Would like to hit the Oracle server with ERwin as well.

Question: Are any of the Oracle tools supported under Win98?   What network files need to be modified to make the connection to the server?

Question: Can I still access the Oracle database from VBasic using ADO under Win98?
  What do I need to configure to get this connection?

Question: Is the Oracle ODBC driver compatible, whenever I try to create a data source for it, it tells me that the specified driver could not be loaded 1157?

Question: Does the Microsoft Oracle ODBC driver work under Win98?

Question: Is the connect string in SQLPlus the sid on the Oracle Server, where does it look for to translate to an actual Oracle Server?

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