Thanks Yong. That's the way it has been on windows for a long time. Kind of silly that a customer shoul be forced to jump through hoops to get this basic functionality. The location of all msg files can be found in OH/lib/facilities.lis as I recall. Jared On Monday, November 3, 2014, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','yong321@xxxxxxxxx');>> wrote: > Jared, > > I blogged about this 12c oerr.bat: > > "To use it, you need to set s_oraclehome to the same as %oracle_home%, set > perl5lib to %s_oraclehome%\perl and copy at least oraus.msg from any > Linux/UNIX Oracle box, which is missing in %oracle_home%\rdbms\mesg" > > (from http://yong321.freeshell.org/freeware/Windowsoerr.html) > > You have to have *.msg files copied from somewhere else, at least for > Oracle 12.1.0.1. (I didn't install 12.1.0.2 to check it.) > > Yong Huang > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Principal Consultant at Pythian Pythian Blog http://www.pythian.com/blog/author/still/ Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com