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From: "Henry Lau" <henryl@asper.com.hk>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Oracle data file format
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:21:28 +0800
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Hi,

  I am using windows 2000 and oracle 8.1.6  Is any one know why my database
files format is ORA ? what is the different between ORA and DBF??
Is it possible to restore the DBF to Unix Oracle database??

Henry