Moving from SCO to Linux

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:31:22PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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)?

MenuMaestro will indeed run under linux-abi (which isn't even the same
code as linux-iBCS), but you need to tweak things a little bit.

Cheers,
-- jra
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