Norm! > I think, to avoid my original problem, we should be calling our homes > something like: > > /opt/oracle/product/11.2.0.3/EE/ > /opt/oracle/product/11.2.0.3/SE/ > /opt/oracle/product/11.2.0.2/client_1 And thanks to Oracle not supplying 32-bit libs with 11.2, I now have: $ORACLE_BASE/product/11.2.0/32_bit Perhaps a "client"/"server" designation would also be a good idea. Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l