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This is the README file for Oracle patch tool OPatch. OPatch is a set of perl scripts that run with perl 5.005_03 and greater. OPatch also needs JRE and JDK to be present in the Oracle Home. It can be invoked directly using <perl> opatch.pl <command> or via the shell script (opatch) for unix systems or the batch file (opatch.bat) for Microsoft based OSs, i.e.: opatch <command> or opatch.bat <command> There is a User's Guide in the 'docs' subdirectory that has full details on running the tool. There is FAQ file in the same directory that answers many of the common questions. Using OPatch is Oracle's only supported method of installing Interim patches. It updates the central and per-product inventories with the details of the patch allowing. A binary version of perl for supported systems is available from Oracle's ARU site. Source code for perl is available from http://www.cpan.org (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network). Links to binary versions of perl for supported operating systems is also noted on the CPAN web site. ========================================================================= Update: 12 August 2003 By: phnguyen