Originally posted by akhadar
It is not possible to take export from higher version to lower version except in 9i.
Thats not what was being asked. This question is "can i use 8i export utility to export from an 8.0 database.".

I don't think it is possible, although you CAN create an Oracle 8.0 export file from an 8i database.

You could just try it though -- Oracle will soon tell you if you can't.