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