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From: FORKEL@DB0PTZ1A.BITNET (Malte Forkel)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: ORACLE for Mac - problem with OERMSG
Message-ID: <90267.163344FORKEL@DB0PTZ1A.BITNET>
Date: 24 Sep 90 15:33:44 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin
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I am using the Oracle Call Interface (OCI) of Oracle for Macintosh v1.1
and MPW C v3.1 to implement an Oracle interface for Smalltalk-80. The OCI
includes the funtion OERMSG that is supposed to return the error message
text corresponding to a return code (first arg of OERMSG) into a message
buffer (second arg of OERMSG). Unfortunately, OERMSG doesn't put anything
into the buffer. I was told by Oracle technical support that this is a
bug in the implementation that also exists in version 1.2 of Oracle for
the Mac. They will fix it, but don't know when this will happen.

Can anybody suggest a fix or workaround?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Malte

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