oracle.ini file format : a new standard ?
Date: 1996/02/11
Message-ID: <4fl5m6$mvs_at_news.Belgium.EU.net>#1/1
ORACLE.INI looks completely like win.ini and system.ini, a so-called
inifile.
Inifiles have entries grouped within sections (names between [] ). Every
entry is meaningful within its section.
Inifiles are normally read and written using Win SDK routines
GetProfileString() and WriteProfileString(), or using their private
versions.
Well, in my ORACLE.INI file I did REMOVE ALL SECTION HEADERS.
Everything (dev2000 1.2) did continue to work fine...
Restoring the section names and moving entries across sections wasn't a
problem too. Everything worked fine.
In fact the sections headers in ORACLE.INI seem to be COMMENT fields ...
In fact I lost many hours with all this, since I wanted to save a
second set of entries in section [Oracle] under the name [OracleTest],
sort of having multiple configs in a single inifile, a technique
frequently used in other inifiles. But Oracle - of course - simply took
the later entries found in the file, thus those in [OracleTest] ...