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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: "Lin Gu" <lingu@fudan.edu>
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Subject: Re: perl and DBI 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:29:00 +0800."
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:29:00 +0800, "Lin Gu" wrote:

> Is there any good method to access Oracle dababase using perl on FreeBSD?
> DBI seems a solution but I am afraid they need Oracle client side software
> which is not available on BSD platform.

DBI is, as far as I know, the _only_ solution for perl on FreeBSD.  It
is possible to get the client-side stuff on a FreeBSD box, although it
requires work.  Instructions that worked at one time are at:

	http://www.scc.nl/~marcel/howto-oracle.html

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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