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From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Progress (DOS) <--> Progress (UNIX) Portability?
Message-ID: <119@mnopltd.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 90 16:11:34 GMT
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->Are Progress database application and data files created under
->UNIX (specifically, Interactive's 386/ix) portable to DOS?  That is,
->can I use Interactive's doscp utility to move these file from a
->UNIX host to a DOS host and have them be usable?  Is any sort of
->conversion necessary?  Does Progress itself have conversion utilities?

Programs: Of Course!

Database Files: Not in native format;  dump them and transfer the definition
files (.df) and data contents files (.d) and reload.  Voila!

Ectually, you needn't even doscp the stuff if you have Vpix or some such.
Progress doesn't seem to care about Carriage-return/Line-feed differences
between Dos and Unix.

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