Re: Oracle client

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From: Peter Pentchev
Subject: Re: Oracle client
Date: 12:37 on 28 Jul 2005
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:05:30PM -0400, Chet Hosey wrote:
[snip]
> I was comparing strace output piped through diff to try to find
> anything which might explain the difference in functionality.

BTDTGTHTS, although not specifically with the Oracle client...
Quote snarfed, unless you mind terribly.

[snip]
> I hate Oracle I hate mailers I hate lack of documentation hate hate
> HATE. Is Larry's dislike of all things Microsoft so thorough that he
> insists that his software fails in obscure ways when confronted with so
> much as a Windows text file, punishing users for so much as letting a
> configuration file hit a Windows machine in its path to something UNIXy
> enough not to raise Larry's hackles?

Well, he wouldn't be alone in that - ISTR similar problems when the
junior so-called sysadmin of the uplink ISP was trying to feed a
Notepad-generated zone file to an earlier version of BIND.  The problem
there was that BIND shrugged, accepted the file - and proceeded to
happily serve the data, with the CR's included in the answer records.

G'luck,
Peter

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