Thanks guys for proving I'm not insane (I know my wife will still disagree). Oracle support helpfully closed my SR on this, so I'm going to have to reopen it and provide them the info about the '@' character. That's an interesting piece of information, by the way, and it sure explains why the analyst didn't see any problem with the doc. Rich Tylka Glimcher Realty On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Niall Litchfield < niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That seems reasonable, but what a terrible special character to choose if > that's the case. > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Martin Berger > <martin.a.berger@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> Kurts explanations remembered me of the way, many oracle documents are >> seperated into public and internal parts: >> In many documents, lines starting with a @ are shown only 'internal'. If >> my memory serves well, this goes back to the old TAR-handling >> forms-application. >> > > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.orawin.info >