Moving from SCO to Linux

Bill Campbell bill at celestial.com
Fri Jul 23 13:06:01 PDT 2004


On Fri, Jul 23, 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>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.)

I presume that FP has utilities to massage the 20 byte headers of the key
segments appropriately to change between the endians?

Bill
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