Thanks, this is the kind of feedback I am looking for. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:32 PM, J. Laurindo Chiappa < jlchiappa1967@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jared , I use cygwin for simple tasks only (ie, check the last first lines > on log files, count lines, find patterns/files, etc), this kind of task is > so much easier with the unix commands/tools, I think... Regarding variables, > the ORACLE variables (ie, like ORACLE_SID, ORACLE_HOME, etc) will be used by > windows executables, so must follow Windows conventions, and system > variables (like PATH) must follow cygwin ones, as : > > chiappa@user-b468644a75 ~ > $ export ORACLE_SID=O10GR2 > > chiappa@user-b468644a75 ~ > $ export ORACLE_HOME="C:\O10GR2" > > >