Moving from SCO to Linux

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Fri Jul 23 12:45:11 PDT 2004


Jeremy Anderson wrote:
[...]
> My major concern is migrating the filepro product itself.  Basically,
> will I be able to move the directory structure over, and crank up the
> Linux version?  Or is there lots of file masssaging that has to be
> done (outside the normal ownership/perm issues)?

All little-endian *nix-based versions of filePro have the same binary file
formats.  (And all big-endian *nix-based versions of filePro have the same
binary file formats.)

Note that there used to be exceptions -- the AT&T 3B/2 for example -- but
that is no longer the case.

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