RE: Why are SPFILEs binary anyway? (was RE: How to make SPFILE in

Why would you want to do that? You can always re-create the file from your PFILE. Oracle should have encrypted it.

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From: Richard Ji [mailto:Richard.Ji_at_ztango.com] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:10 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Why are SPFILEs binary anyway? (was RE: How to make SPFILE in

That's a good point. Someone should try a binary editor instead, like bvi and see what happens.

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Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:45 AM
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I wonder if it is something built into the file or something that vi (or whatever editor you are using) does to the file when you save it. I say that because, if you edit the text part of an export file with vi, you get an unusable file. But the text part of an export file can be edited by other means and it will work -- for example, by running it through a C or Perl program and editing the stream as it flows through the program; and I think, if the export file is not too big (< 2 gig I think ) emacs (with certain options??) can be used.

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> -----Original Message-----
>
> it's a fake sort of binary -- try editing it with vi and then try
> opening your database with the spfile... but first make an init.ora
> copy of it.
>
> There is some sort of checksum going on, even though it looks like
> ASCII
>

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