From: tmh@jumpgate.cc.purdue.edu (Todd M. Helfter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: ANNOUNCE:: Oratcl 3.1 released
Date: 16 Oct 2000 11:53:55 GMT

This is an announcement of a new version of Oratcl (3.1) available.  This
version of oratcl may be obtained in two locations.  The cvs repository
at ajuba solutions. (available soon)

        cvs checkout -r oratcl-3-1-branch oratcl

and also from my web site.

        http://fistandantilus.cc.purdue.edu/webpub/oratcl.htm

The major changes for this release are the inclusion of two new commands
oralob and oralong.  These commands are intended for the manipulation of
CLOB, BLOB, LONG, and LONG RAW oracle datatypes.  A few other bug fixes and
patches are included as well.  Here is a summary.


Version 3.1 October, 2000

    Todd M. Helfter, Purdue University
    tmh@purdue.edu


    -   applied patches from Don Libes (libes@cme.nist.gov) that allow Oracle
        8.0.x to be used with this library.  The basic problem is that Oracle
        8.0.x OCI library does not seem to know about LOB types.
    -   updated oratcl.c to build clean on a windows system.
    -   relocated configuration files to be common to unix and windows.
    -   corrected bug in Oratcl_Logon preventing remote_os_authent access.
        Thanks to Cesar Perez Fernandez (cpf06@tid.es) for the correction.
    -   added "loginhandle" option to orainfo to facilitate conversions from
        statement handle back to loginhandle.
    -   added the library file oralob.tcl to implement a new oralob command.
    -   added "lobpsize" to oraconfig to manage the piece size in oralob
        read/writes.
    -   added the library file oralong.tcl to implement a new oralong command.
    -   added "longpsize" to oraconfig to manage the piece size in oralong
        read/writes.
    -   reorganized the windows prebuilt files directory once again.


Long time users/installers of Oratcl will notice that oratcl now contains
some additional tcl files which must also be installed.  The unix/cygwin
built makefiles will install these files, regular windows users will need
to do so manually (see the win/README.win file for details).  These tcl
files are sourced from the pkgIndex.tcl file when Oratcl is package required.


Examples of the use of the new commands have been placed in the man page.


As alway, report any problems using Oratcl to me, or post them to
comp.lang.tcl

Todd



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	|        Todd M. Helfter         |
	|        tmh@purdue.edu          |
	|   Database Analyst/Programmer  |
	|        Purdue University       |
	|--------------------------------|
	|	 Oratcl Maintainer	 |
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