"exp" with Oracle 11.1 client and 10.2 instance gives "MAXSIZE" error

Question

My company has a lot of customers running lots of versions (and combinations of versions) of Oracle, so I like to come up with commands that will usually work for all of them. I recently installed Oracle 11.1.0.6 client on my PC, and this happened when connecting to a 10.2.0.3 database on an AIX machine:
C:\temp>exp mfour/mfour@testdb tables=(bill_period_loc) file=bpl.exp
Export: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Thu Jun 5 08:25:14 2008
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Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition
      Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
Export done in WE8MSWIN1252 character set and
      AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
server uses WE8ISO8859P1 character set (possible charset conversion)
About to export specified tables via Conventional Path ...
. . exporting table                BILL_PERIOD_LOC
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 904 encountered
ORA-00904: "MAXSIZE": invalid identifier
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 942 encountered
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
EXP-00024: Export views not installed, please notify your DBA
EXP-00000: Export terminated unsuccessfully
C:\temp>In the past I've had good results when using newer clients to exp/imp on older instances. Is there a switch or something to get this to work?

Answer 1

Although it may work (sometimes), using newer export versions against older database versions is neither recommended nor supported. So use the same export version as the target database.
Werner