From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 4 22:12:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B43106566C for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 22:12:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA6A28FC13 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 22:12:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MCLAt-00068Q-10 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:12:39 +0000 Received: from pool-68-239-69-130.washdc.east.verizon.net ([68.239.69.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:12:39 +0000 Received: from nightrecon by pool-68-239-69-130.washdc.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:12:39 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:14:14 -0400 Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: <200906042043.n54Kh05w003205@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-68-239-69-130.washdc.east.verizon.net Sender: news Subject: Re: The quest for linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nightrecon@verizon.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:12:41 -0000 Martin McCormick wrote: > I have run across a couple of other ports that required the > acceptance of a software agreement and the process was > relatively painless, but this one makes up for all that and then > some. > > For hours today, I have been wading through the Oracle > web site trying to connect the URL > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html > > with the agreement I must accept and the ultimate purpose of > this so-far futile quest, the download of the zip file > has yet to happen because of the utter triumph of form over > function which is the state of the art of what passes for web > design these days. > > I am limited to lynx or safari. Nothing else is an > option right now. On the Mac, safari is the only browser that > truly works with the screen reader known as VoiceOver. The lynx > browser while it works perfectly with text-based standard input > and output falls flat when confronted with scripting languages > like javascript. > > Oddly enough, both lynx and safari work about the same > way on this site. One uses the url that make tells you to use > and then things just kind of go to pot in a confused jungle of > marketing verbiage and links that are mostly inappropriate to the > task at hand. > > Once, I actually saw the agreement, screen after screen > of legalese and then discovered there was no button to click and > no way out except to back up to the previous screen. > > I certainly hope that if I ever get this installed, it is worth > wasting literally half a work day due to the IT equivalent of a > dialog with an utter idiot. In this case, the idiot is the web > site, not a specific person. > > I figured at this same time a couple of days ago, we'd > have it installed and be testing to see if it meets our needs. > > The interesting thing about all this is that there has > been a thread on this list about open source software. One > comment I can make is that there is simply not these kinds of > hassles. Commercial sites are too busy looking goo-oo-ood! to be > useful much of the time. > This is one of the worst I have seen to date. Click here: http://members.verizon.net/nightrecon/instantclient-sqlplus- linux32-10.2.0.3-20061115.zip Copy to /usr/ports/distfiles/oracle/ directory. Good luck to you. -Mike