Moving from SCO to Linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004, Jay R. Ashworth 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)?
>
>Naw; we migrate people all the time.  Filepro, qua filepro, moved just
>fine.  Your non-filepro menu program might give you trouble, if you have
>one; you have to be careful about scripting called *from* filepro menus
>(or .profiles), and you need to check for SYSTEM calls in your code.

Are you referring to menumaestro?  Is that a SCO '286 a.out file or will it
run under linux-abi (nee iBCS)?

Bill
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