I work on various versions of UNIX and Linux, and have found that sometimes ORACLE_PATH works and sometimes SQLPATH works. So I just set both in my environment. --Terry > We use AIX 5.2L and I have been using "export SQLPATH=$HOME/ora:$HOME" > for a couple of releases, 8.1.7 - 10.1.0.4, without a problem. > > HTH -- Mark D Powell -- -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l