On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:06:35 GMT, CoolDude <nospam@nospam.it> wrote:
>My environment is Oracle 9i + Redhat, both client(sqlplus) and server
>are on the same machine. Here are my observations:
>1. "help" not always available.
> If the database instance is not started yet, launch sqlplus "/ as
>sysdba", a "help desc" will report "help not available". Seems to me
>that sqlplus help is stored in the instance?
>
>2. On linux bash shell, "CTRL-Z" can normally pause a process and return
> to shell prompt. But it doesn't seems to have any effect on sqlplus.
>Any idea/solution?
>
>Thanks,
>-cd

some *sql*plus* help *can* be stored in the instance, provided one
does read post-installation steps and run the helpins procedure.
This will *NOT* install a full SQL reference as that is way too big.
But that is no problem as all doco is online at
[url]http://tahiti.oracle.com[/url], which does include the sql*plus reference
manual.


Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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