Log Miner for dummies - need help viewing the contents of an archived redo log

hi,

I need to review the contents of an archive log generated last week on my production database. I did some searching online but couldn't find anything that was very helpful - I would prefer to review the log in a way that has no impact on the production database. What I have found so far involves changing/enabling the utl_fil_dir parameter and I would prefer to avoid doing that.

any help would be appreciated - thanks!

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