Re: Oracle 9.2, xsql demos, installation issues and an amazing bright blue screen...

FC wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am wondering if I am the only dude who's struggling with the installation
> of xsql and related demos, I didn't find much info on this topic in the
> newsgroups.
> I've spent some hours playing around with the demos and I managed to get
> them to work finally, although I had to amend some installation scripts
> because they won't run at all.
> The demo called emp/dept in the empdept subdirectory of
> demo/java/xsql/empdept doesn't work on a windows machine because the text
> files lack the proper newline terminator. When I ran the script right out of
> the box, I got several parsing errors and I had to manually add newlines. It
> looks like some of the demo files have been copied from a unix environment
> in binary mode instead of ascii.
> The same happened with docdemo.sql and insclaim.sql.
> Also, xsql demo connection is defaulted to scott/tiger, but in order to
> compile this stuff as scott you must manually grant all the necessary
> priveleges to the user or grant the resource role to cut it short.
> Last but not least, the svg file, created on-the-fly, comes out with some
> nasty DTD that causes the (in)famous blue screen
> to appear as soon as I tried to open it with Adobe SVG Viewer 3.01.
> After removing the unnecessary and bogus DTD declaration, everything worked
> out fine.
> Is it possible that I am the only one who's ever seen this???
>
> Bye,
> Flavio
>
>
>

It's been a while - but no - the demoes worked. And the new-line chars are there; they are just not CR/LF as DOS wants them

And I just used a webbrowser, IE, Netscape and Opera all worked well (IE 5.5 & 6)

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel