Re: Some questions about installing on Linux

I can only answer some of these questions...

> 2. How can I press the UP arrow to show previous commands at the SQL>
> prompt? When I press UP, it shows ^[[A.

I don't think sqlplus supports this on any OS, but I'm kind of new to Oracle. You can type "l"<enter> to list the comands you've typed in so far. Look at the oracle documentation for all of the line editing commands (it's similar to how ex or ed work).

> 5. A UNIX question. Every time I logon to UNIX either as root or oracle
> or me, ~/.profile is not run automatically (shell is bash). So I have
> to manually ". .profile" every time I open a terminal window.

bash reads .bashrc, so either put the contents of .profile in .bashrc or do a:

. .profile

in your .bashrc file.

> 3. My stty is set correctly at shell prompt but not in SQL*Plus. Every
> time I get into SQL*Plus, I have to type "host stty erase ^H" to use
> Backspace to delete.

add a "host stty erase ^H" to your $ORACLE_HOME/sqlplus/admin/glogin.sql file. This gets run whenever anyone runs sqlplus on the computer.  

Erik Received on Fri Jul 23 1999 - 16:57:32 CDT