>Hi All,
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>I wonder if anyone has had any experience with Merant's Connect ODBC v3.7. Apparently it has 'Native Wire' connectivity to Oracle 8.1.6 - no Net8 required.
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>I have downloaded a demo but can't get it to work in this manner and all the docs just point you to tnsnames.ora entries.
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>Has anyone looked at this at all?

I have not looked at this, but by the description of what you say the docs are pointing you to, it looks like Net8 [or SQL*Net] is needed. the TNSNAMES .ORA file is in the Oracle home directory, usually in the Network\Admin subfolder. This file contains your connect string which defines the connection information [IP address, domain, SID name, etc]. Use the Net8 Easy Config utility to set up the connection to your database.