A combination of the latest LISTSERV build and the latest Oracle ODBC
drivers seemed to do the trick.  Ultimately we did a clean NT installation
to make sure that everything was completely uncorrupted by the previous
setup.

I say this now before the hidden gotchas find me, but things look good.
Thanks for the suggestions and help.

-jwgh

>>Has anyone gotten DBMS working with Oracle 7 on a LISTSERV 1.8d for NT
>>installation?
>
>First, make sure you have the release build of 1.8d and not a beta build. Many
>minor DBMS problems were fixed during the beta.
>
>>I've been having some problems (in particular with adding
>>and removing addresses with underscores in them),
>
>What problem exactly? There is a driver limitation which can prevent this but
>I don't see it in the diagnostics you enclosed.
>
>>| Connecting to ODBC data source...
>>| > Driver manager version: 3.0.2822.0000
>>| > ODBC driver: SQ032_73.DLL (02.00.03.01.01)
>>| > DBMS: Oracle7 (07.03.0000)
>>| [SEVERE] FOR UPDATE clause not supported, no locking will occur
>
>We have O8 so it may not be the same thing, but we found that the driver
>that comes with NT is buggy and the one shipped by Oracle works a lot better.
>Actually I don't think that driver came with NT, it must have been VC++ or a
>similar add-on, either way it was quite old and MS might not spend a huge
>amount
>of resources to improve its reliability or performance ;-) The Oracle ODBC
>driver
>is free and you may want to give it a try if it works with O7 (or there
>might be a
>separate one for O7). In general I have found that many ODBC drivers are Win95
>quality :-( Running our benchmark suite on Access was certainly a
>challenge :-)
>
>  Eric