RE: Character set marker unknown

When you say "got a dump file" how exactly did you get it. This error is often caused by not using binary mode ftp to transfer a file or by some zip / unzip error.  

Regards,  

Ian

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Onkar N Tiwary Sent: 07 November 2005 14:58
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Character set marker unknown

hi guys,  

today we had got a dump file from the client for importing two tables in the database containing somwhere more than 1 million records in each. When i invoked imp utility on the database , i am getting the error :  

IMP-00037 : Character set marker unknown  

os & db info:  

Windows 2000 Adv. Server
Db : Oracle 9i rel 2 ( 9.2.0.6 target 9.2.0.4 source) Character set : Export done in US7ASCII character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set -- source

                       server uses WE8ISO8859P1 character set   -- target
 
 

I tried on metalink and they say might be dump file corrupted but client says they can import from the same dump file without error.  

Any Idea??????????????

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OneAPPS Enterprise Technology Pvt. Ltd.

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Mon Nov 07 2005 - 09:19:52 CST