Oracle Card with PATHWORKS

    Has anybody got Oracle Card for Windows V1.0 to coexist with Digital's     Pathworks? Actually got it to connect to a remote database, not just     install and load?

    When you specify the user, password, and connect string, you get     Oracle error 3121 (communication error). After talking with Oracle     support about a half dozen times now, it doesn't appear good, and Oracle     Card for Windows was rated one of the top ten apps of 91 by PCMag, so it     would be nice if it worked with Pathworks. This DOES work fine:     starting Pathworks (with or w/o EMS), SQLDNT (real mode), and then     connecting to a remote server with SQLPLUS (non windows based) from the     Tools kit. But from within enhanced mode Windows, Oracle card can't talk     to the real mode SQLDNT, hence the connect failure. SQLDNT was run     before starting Windows or after (Program Manager File, Run) and made no     difference. Interestingly, from within Windows, running the same exact     SQLPLUS command that connected fine outside of Windows now gives the     same Error 3121.

    The Oracle Card release notes say that SQLDNT must be used in real mode     with Enhanced Windows, and if Windows must be used in Standard mode with     Protected mode SQLDNT. The Protected mode (SQLPME, then SQLDNT; PBIN     entry first in PATH) fails with other memory managers present, so EMM386     can't be used, which severely limits memory, and by the time Pathworks     is in RAM (bare minumum needed for file service connect), SQLDNT, and     Win is started in Standard mode, then Oracle Card pops up a window     declaring its out of memory. Standard mode Windows won't cut it     anyhow, but it doesn't appear to work either.

Nitty gritty:
Hardware: DECstation (nee Tandy) 325c or 316sx, 4Mb, 52Mb IDE, Paradise VGA,   DE200 at C800/32k mode, 101.
Software: DOS 5 Upgrade, Windows 3.00a, Oracle SQL*net DECnet V1.1, Oracle   SQLPLUS from Oracle Tools V5.1C, Pathworks V4.0, WIN3SETU'ped.

Configuration: (Windows is installed on the network, with both client and   server "portions" on file services. The only changes made from the standard   Windows SETUP are "EMMExclude=c800-cfff" and "PagingDrive=C" lines added to   each clients' SYSTEM.INI. Pathworks NETSETUP is not using XMS, and when EMS   is chosen and used with EMM386, only DNP is loaded, and only DNP is in EMS.

CONFIG.SYS:
device=c:\dos\himem.sys
device=c:\dos\emm386.exe 1344 i=b000-b7ff x=b800-cfff frame=d000 ram dos=high, umb
files=40
BUFFERS=16
shell=c:\command.com c:\ /p /e:1024

devicehigh=c:\dos\setver.exe
devicehigh=c:\dos\smartdrv.sys 2048 512
devicehigh=c:\dos\ansi.sys

AUTOEXEC.BAT:(pertinent lines)
PATH=c:\dos;c:\decnet;o:\ORACLE5\BIN;m:\windows;e:\windows SET CONFIG=m:\ORACLE5\CONFIG.ORA
lh c:\dos\doskey.com
SET TEMP=C:\DOS CONFIG.ORA:
ORACLE_HOME=C:\ORACLE5
GDTSIZ=20000
MACHINE_TYPE=0
SQLPATH=C:\ORACLE5

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