Look up Oracle Instant Client. Likely the best option for you as it is essentially free and installs in 1 minute, if that. It comes with its own command line sqlplus. -- Cheers Nuno Souto dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx On 21/02/2013 1:16 AM, Zelli, Brian wrote: > Ok, this question is a little off the path. I teach a dbms class and I want > the students to use sqlplus. The school used to provide the download of the > client but no longer. > I told them to go to the oracle website and download it. They said they > can't download it for free. I thought the client was free? > ciao, > Brian > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l