wgi@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (William G. Innanen) (10/27/90)
I just tried to convert my Oracle for Macintosh, ver 1.2 (single user version) over to HyperCard 2.0. I had no luck. I converted the "Oracle System Scack" to HC2 and copied the XCMDs to the HC2 Home stack. (I guess that wasn't really necessary since they're also in the System stack.) Upon launching the System stack I immediately got errors as if some HC scripts had been corrupted. The stack did not even seem to be able to tell if Oracle was running or not. The XCMDs weren't connecting, I guess. I tried to get into the stack to look at the scripts, but received progressively worse errors until finally my Mac crashed - violently (video was lost). At this point I decided to back off and seek advice. Has anyone out there successfully done this? If so, how? Does anyone have any hints as to what might be the problem? All suggestions, hints and off-the-wall comments gratefully accepted. Bill Innanen -- William G. Innanen Johns Hopkins Univ/Applied Physics Lab (Internet) wgi@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
mrx@dhw68k.cts.com (Mark Murphy) (10/31/90)
In article <317@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU> wgi@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (William G. Innanen) writes: >I just tried to convert my Oracle for Macintosh, ver 1.2 >(single user version) over to HyperCard 2.0. I had no luck. > >Has anyone out there successfully done this? If so, how? >Does anyone have any hints as to what might be the problem? > I just converted my Oracle 1.2 to HC 2.0 with no problem. I just opened the system stack and converted it. I noticed that the Query Stack didn't have the execSql XCMD, so I copied it over. I can't imagine what might have happened to your conversion. You might want to follow the directions for re-installing Oracle. Make sure to copy your dbs.ora, bi.ora, etc if you have a local database. I found the installation instructions very easy. As a side note, I have noticed that the Oracle 1.2/HC 2.0 combo is much faster than previous versions. Also, I really like the ability to use SQL*PLUS from the shell instead of using SQL Lab in the System Stack all the time... If you still are having problems, send me mail and I will reply with a phone number to reach me at. -- mark mrx@dhw68k.cts.com