getting data to an updated machine

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Creative Photography and Video
<cpvphoto at cpvphoto.com> wrote:

> I have an older version of filepro running on a
> xenix operating system and a wyse 486 machine. If I
> want to put this on a newer updated machine and
> linux what might be suggested in getting data over
> to the new machine. 
> 
> Steve> 

It depends on the type of system to which you will be
transferring the data.  The byte order is different on
certain machines, so depending on the destination you
may need to run either the fptransfer program or the
swapcpu program.  If the byte order is the same then
you should be able to simply tar up the data files and
indexes, then ftp and un-tar them on the destination
machine, then rebuild your indexes.

You may run into a problem with indexes - there are
programs out there that will document them for you,
and re-build them.  You may need to look into that if
you need to go the swapcpu route.

You will of course need to make sure you have filepro
installed properly on the new machine, and configured
similarly to your xenix box.  You will probably want
to copy over the $PFPROG/fp/lib/edits and
$PFPROG/fp/lib/config files, and configure the system
with the same printer names if possible.

I believe that the really old versions of filepro had
a different menu structure - I'm not sure if you will
run into a problem with that or not. 

Good Luck.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.



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