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From: anderson@well.sf.ca.us (David E. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Help on moving ORACLE data from PC to VAX
Summary: test data transmission with a round trip
Keywords: export Oracle data transfer
Message-ID: <21717@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 19 Nov 90 07:56:34 GMT
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>>I am having great problems exp(orting) a table from pc Oracle ver 5.1b to a  
>>VAX 8700 ver 5. When I try to imp(ort) the table,  I get messages about  
>>seals not matching when using  Pacerlink binary transfer and abnormal 
>>end of file when using Kermit. I have already tried multiple sources for help, 
test the data transfer with a round trip:
pc->vax->pc
then diff the files or try to import on the pc. 
This problem has always been a data transfer issue; failure in this test would
provide show where the problem lies.