P.S. IIRC this will happen with any client program using SQL*Net:
e.g. change "My_program.exe" to "(My_program).exe" and SQL*Net will be unable to establish a connection.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacques Kilchoer
>
> Stupid DBA trick #32, or how to drive your DBA colleague wild
> on April Fool's day:
> go over to her machine, and change the name of the SQL*Plus
> executable (%ORACLE_HOME%\bin\sqlplusw.exe, plus80w.exe or
> whatever it is) by surrounding it with parentheses, e.g.
> "(sqlplusw).exe" and change the shortcuts to point to that
> program. SQL*Net will NOT be happy.
