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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Progress (DOS) <--> Progress (UNIX) Portability?
Message-ID: <240@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 90 16:41:37 GMT
References: <530@oss670.UUCP> <80@thinc.UUCP>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <80@thinc.UUCP>, ethan@thinc.UUCP (Ethan A. Lish of THINC) writes:
> In article <530@oss670.UUCP>, tkevans@oss670.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes:
> > 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?

> Greetings -
> 
> 	Lets talk about the "porting" effort in two stages;
... on forever

In other words, the answer is no.  You have to dump, recompile and reload.
Which makes sense.  I know the semi-compiled programs are not portable
between systems (or Progress versions) and I guess I would expect the same
sort of problems with file structure.

This is too bad, however as I have been in a situation where it would
be nice to be able to copy the database and just be running.
(Don't take this as a serious negative comment.  I am a very satisfied
Progress user.)