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Fwd: Re: Fwd: tnsnames.ora on net-dist
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Regina Gogol)
Wed Feb 17 17:45:10 1999
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:44:08 -0500
To: netreq@mit.edu, ds-ask@mit.edu, sharari@mit.edu, installers@mit.edu,
repa@mit.edu
From: Regina Gogol <rlgogol@MIT.EDU>
>Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:39:23 -0500
>To: Chris Murphy <chris@MIT.EDU>
>From: Regina Gogol <rlgogol@mit.edu>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: tnsnames.ora on net-dist
>
>Chris,
>
>The file is already in the so called Macbinary format. Jim Repa wrote a program which
>converts any end line character into any end line character for any platform. You might want to replace the tnsnames.ora on netdist with the file:
>/afs/athena.mit.edu/astaff/project/ds/dbms/oracle/public/macora/tnsnames.ora.
>
>The tnsnames.ora is an ASCII file. I am including Jim's mail which you possibly have not
>seen, Jim ended up writing a program for all three versions.
>If you have more questions feel free to call me or Jim Repa.
>
>Regina.
>-------------------
>
>At 01:49 PM 1/25/99 -0500, Jim wrote:
>
>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
>
>At 04:53 PM 2/17/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Regina,
>>
>>The existing Mac file on net-dist is in Macbinary format, the new one seems to
>>be a straight text file. You'll need to fix this. I'll go ahead and update
>>the NT file.
>>
>>-Chris
>>
Regina Gogol
MIT, Information Systems
Database Services
Phone: (617)253-0553
Fax: (617)253-7661
rlgogol@mit.edu
