The NLS CHARACTERSET is the following: Original database WE8MSWIN1252 Target database WE8MSWIN1252 RCAT Catalog: US7ASCII In the recovery script I set NLS to: NLS_LANG=3DAMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1 When the recovery is being done to duplicate the database I get an error on NLS Lang mismatch. Would it work to just set it in my recovery script to: NLS_LANG=3DAMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l