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> Sounds good. I should have written "export, ftp, import" instead of just
> import. I can see the mount point issues being a real problem.
>
> --Scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "K Gopalakrishnan" <kaygopal_at_yahoo.com>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 4:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Datafile Migration Tool
>
>
> > FTP just transfers the file (either binary or text) to the target OS
> > and that file can not be opened by the Oracle running in the target
> > machine.
> >
> > Beacuse each OS will have different file formats and Oracle running in
> > differenct OSs will use differnet system calls /APIs to CRUD (Create
> > Replace Update Delete) the files.
> >
> > Here if you take an NT-oracle data file to Unix oracle , this file is
> > a junk data according to unix-oracle. But if you covert that file to
> > unix format using the tool, your unix-oracle will/can/may read that
> > file and straight away you can open the database..
> >
> > Hope this clarifiesd the confusion..!!
> >
> >
> > --- Scott Shafer <sknd100_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Not to be a smartass, but don't most OS's already have ftp built in?
> > > What kind of value-added are you proposing? Just curious...
> > >
> > > Scott Shafer
> > > San Antonio, TX
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