[220] in installers
tnsnames file for Mac and PC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Repa)
Mon Jan 25 14:00:03 1999
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 99 13:49:35 EST
From: Jim Repa <REPA@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: INSTALLERS@MIT.EDU
Hi,
It was my understanding that the SQL*Net installers for the Mac and
for Windows downloaded the tnsnames.ora file via the MIT-written
FTP tools for the two installer packages. Last time I talked to
Mohammad about this, he thought that the FTP tools only supported
binary transfers (although it was a long time ago that I asked him
about this).
I agree with Steve Dowdy that it is a serious inconvenience to have
to edit a tnsnames.ora file that has the wrong kind of line-end
characters for ones platform. I think we should either:
(1) have the FTP tool for the installers use an ASCII-mode transfer
for the tnsnames.ora file (if possible), or
(2) maintain separate copies of the tnsnames file for Windows, the Mac,
and Solaris and have each installer grab the appropriate version
depending on the platform.
If we choose option (2), I'd be happy to write a little program to
take a single tnsnames.ora file and generate versions for the three
platforms with the appropriate native line-end characters. This will
only take a few minutes, and it should make it easy for the database
group to generate platform-specific versions of the file without
having to manually move the file around to three different platforms.
(That's as long as the tnsnames file is maintained on a Unix system or a
Mac; I won't volunteer to write a program for the Windows environment :-) )
Jim
