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

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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> 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.
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> There is some sort of checksum going on, even though it looks like
Received on Thu Jul 17 2003 - 08:45:44 CDT