Re: 10g: SQL Plus

Indeed. It's SO cool to run the version 5 thing again. Will you be at the UKOUG conference in Birmingham in December by any chance?

Robson, Peter wrote:

>Ah-a - NOW I see why you want my old version 5 manuals!!
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>peter
>edinburgh
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mogens Nørgaard [mailto:mln_at_miracleas.dk]
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:45 PM
>>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>>Subject: Re: 10g: SQL Plus
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>>Well, we have a good, working 5.25 floppy drive installed on
>>our Oracle
>>Museum PC (486, 25 MHz) now, and we're planning on installing
>>WordPerfect 4.2, Lotus 1-2-3 (with the plug-in for Oracle, which Cary
>>will bring over for the Database Forum next week), and other
>>goodies. We
>>have 5.1 running, and it's very, very fast to start up. Oh,
>>and exports
>>from 5.1 are fine to import in 9i. We haven't tested 10g yet.
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>>We're showcasing this wonder - and the rest of the Oracle Museum for
>>which some of you have so generously helped - at the 10g launch days
>>next week here in Denmark.
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>>Now, Mladen, would it be possible somehow to get hold of eg a zip of
>>those 4.1 floppies?
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>>We have of course ordered another 486 PC, and we intend to
>>give it all
>>of 4 MB of RAM like the other one.
>>
>>The guy that sells all these things has a shop called
>>Dinotech, and he
>>still has about 9 new 5.25 drives from way back then. He'll sell for
>>about 100 kroner each.
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>>We paid 200 kroner for the IBM DOS 5 in its original wrap.
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>>Mogens
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>>Mladen Gogala wrote:
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>>>Will they have UFI in 10g? I'm sort of nostalgic. I cannot install my
>>>3 360k 5.25 floppies with oracle 4.1 on any PC. How about oralink?
>>>Remarkably, it all used to run in 512k of RAM, which is less
>>>
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>>then the
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>>>L3 cache size on any decent P4 system. How many hundreds of
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>>megabytes
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>>>of RAM will I need for 10g? Don't tell me that RAM is cheap. EDO
>>>capable SDRAM for PCI/233 is NOT cheap.
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>>>--
>>>Mladen Gogala
>>>Oracle DBA
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On
>>>>Behalf Of Bob Metelsky
>>>>Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:45 AM
>>>>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>>>>Subject: RE: 10g: SQL Plus
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>>>>>Losing the pseudo-GUI version would be a a drag, because
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>>>>it's so easy
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>>>>>to copy and paste text in it (not so easy in a Windows command
>>>>>
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>>>>prompt).
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>>>>Try right click - paste or click the upper left icon and
>>>>choose paste To copy - choose mark then enter -its then in
>>>>the "clipboard"
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>>>>Ive actually began to like sqlplus (opposed to sqlplusw). One
>>>>good feature is you have your command history using the up
>>>>arrow like regular shell
>>>>
>>>>bob
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