[KLUG Members] SQL*Plus client for linux.

[Adam Williams]

>>I've got an Oracle database running on a windows machine. It's also
>>unning coldfusion, making it a very ugly sight to see indeed.
>>But I digress. I have a few users who would like command line interfaces
>>to Oracle -- SQL*Plus.  Now:  My problem is that I haven't found many
>>programs that will allow you to connect like this from afar. They have no
>>shell on the system, although I could add openSSH for windows on there
>>(but some terminal handling is poor, i.e. backspace, etc) but if possible,
>>I'dl ike a linux version of SQL*Plus that I can set up to connect to it
>>from say, another server.  So far, the only way I know how to get a
>>command line interface to Oracle is to download the entire 600 MB install
>>file for oracle and install it. I'd rather not do this, so if you know of
>>a linux variant of SQL*Plus that allows me to connect, it would be swell
>>if you told me.

While there is no ODBC Oracle driver for UNIX, there is a GDA provider. 
You could use gnome-db/gaSQL.  At this point it is probably easiest to
wait till GNOME2,  then all the gnome-db stuff will be integrated
(GNOMEdb-fe + saSQL).