Oracle 8i v8.1.7.1 OCI / Mac OS X

Hi,
I have installed Oracle8i client on Mac OS X as described in the provided readme but i can't find a way to connect to my oracle server. How do i get SQL running? i get a command not found error when typing sqlplus on the prompt and i cannot even find a file like this. What's wrong? This is my first time testing oracle on Mac. oracle server is on linux.
Thank you very much in advance for your reply
Bench K.

Hi,
I am not aware of a sqlplus v8 for macosx so the nonexistence of it might be your problem. The way I remember it, there are sqlnet libs that are usable from other apps. What you could do is install the v9.2 developers release. This contains sqlplus and in that case just make sure the directory containing sqlplus is in your PATH (you also need a few other environment variables; they are set in DBENV).
Ronald.
http://ronr.nl/unix-dba

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