Re: SQL*PLUS Replacement... please?

Have you tried typing "EDIT" at the SQL> prompt ? It will launch your system's editor.

Cliff

Ari Gordon-Schlosberg wrote:
>
> A relatively new user of Oracle 8.4 (on Solaris), coming in
> as a convert from MySql, I find SQL*PLUS to be very nasty; it's
> shell is terrible: no commandline editing, no history being the
> two biggest complaints that I have.
>
> I'm wondering if
>
> a) There's just some configuration (environment or otherwise)
> that I need to do make this software that much easier to use
>
> or
> b) failing a), a piece of software (preferably freeware) that
> acts as a front-end to SQL*PLUS or replaces it entirely.
>
> Responses via e-mail would be much appreciated. Thanks.
>
> --
> Ari Gordon-Schlosberg Neoglyphics Media Corporation
> Software Engineer Champaign, IL
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