Paula, you should abandon your Korn shell script in favor of perl/DBI scripts regardless of the platform. Perl rulez! -- Mladen Gogala A & E TV Network Ext. 1216 > console. Is = there any need for my korn shell scripts or > should I abandon and = wholeheartedly embrace the GUI? I > suspect it is somewhere in-between. = I was wondering what > others have been experiencing regarding scripts = versus OEM > and especially in 10Gb on Linux. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l