Re: ORA-06413 Solution

In article <6qtd4g$7bb$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>,   wheelock_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:
> We had been experiencing problems getting a program written in Ada using
> ObjectAda 7.1 on Windows NT to connect to an Oracle 8 database. Executables
> developed using MSVC++ written with Pro*C and also OCI would connect just
> fine, but linking the same libraries to make an Ada program would result in a
> connection failed error with ORA-06413, Connection Not Open. Same problem
> appeared when we tried to write an program in Ada to connect using ODBC.
>
> It turned out that the problem was related to parentheses in the path that
> the executable was located in. ObjectAda created a subdirectory like the
> following:
>
> E:\Ada\ODBC Test\ODBC Test-Win32(Intel)-Debug\
>
> The parenthesis portion "(Intel)" apparently confused Net8 when it tried to
> create a connect descriptor with the path to the executable program, which
> resulted in error ORA-06413. We moved the excutable to another directory
> without () and it worked fine.
>
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Thanks for posting this solution! I ran into the same problem using PowerBuilder 5.0 and Oracle 7.1. Your solution saved my life!

Chris Daugherty
cmdaugherty_at_pier1.com

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