[Info-vax] Oracle RDB 7.1.5 PRECOMP.EXE (ALPHA)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/26/2021 11:14 AM, Crabs wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 8:09:56 AM UTC-8, Andrea Arthur wrote:
>> On Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 10:53:36 AM UTC-5, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>>> On 1/26/2021 9:58 AM, Andrea Arthur wrote:
>>>> A colleague reached out to me looking for help recovering the precompile executable that was inadvertently deleted and, of course, has no backup available.
>>>>
>>>> On their system, the file was located in the following directory:
>>>>
>>>> %DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image ORA_PRECOMP:PRECOMP.EXE
>>>> -CLI-E-IMAGEFNF, image file not found DSA504:[ORACLE.ALPHA_7152.ORACLE.][PROGINT.INCLUDE]PRECOMP

>>> Are you sure that's from Rdb, and not Oracle classic?
>>>
>>> I just searched the saveset listings for RDBV73300AM073 and did not find that image.

>> I don't know if it is RDB or Oracle classic, but I do know it is not V733. The version in the directory name explicitly says ALPHA7152 which translates to 7.1-52 or 7.1.5.2.

Rdb are SYS$SYSTEM:RDBPREnn.EXE and SYS$SYSTEM:SQL$PREnn.EXE in recent
versions and I find it very likely to have been like that since
forever.

Newer Oracle DB (Oracle Classic) on Windows use PROC.EXE and PROCOB.EXE,
but no idea how Oracle 7 on VMS would be - Oracle could have
changed names as part of some marketing branding.

 > Odd that in the Windoze world precomp.exe is a bitcoin mining trojan.

:-)

In some ways it would be good news for VMS to have its first
bitcoin mining malware. That would make VMS somewhat mainstream.

:-)

Arne