convert msdos to unix

[Walter Vaughan]

Rafael Bromet wrote:

> Well it seems that i might have it all wrong, on the unix filepro 
> utillity menu option 4 say's  CONVERT FILES FROM MS-DOS FILEPRO  I 
> have used this before and it worked, i just pop in a diskette and it 
> converts the database from dos format to the unix format nicely, but 
> when i tried to access the database in unix useing file creation as an 
> example i get this filepro error "File has been illegally modified"
> or are you guy's saying that, that option does not work anymore?

Well that's interesting. I too have that as an option.
4  Convert files from MSDOS filePro
   @/fp/scripts/doconvert

However, I don't have that program in *my* scripts directory :-(
Otherwise I'd help you debug it.

Anyone else not have it?

# cd /appl/fp/scripts
# ls -l
total 88
-rwx------  1 root  wheel   1204 Oct 19  2004 addunlock
-rwx------  1 root  wheel    838 Oct 19  2004 devlist
-rw-------  1 root  wheel   1751 Oct 19  2004 fp.list
-rwx------  1 root  wheel   3407 Oct 19  2004 fpbackup
-rwx------  1 root  wheel   2902 Oct 19  2004 fprestore
-rwx------  1 root  wheel   5508 Oct 19  2004 setperms
-rwx------  1 root  wheel  64688 Oct 19  2004 sitepwd
-rwx------  1 root  wheel   2472 Oct 19  2004 whatdev

And it's nowhere on the box...
# locate doconvert
#

So I guess it's
1) either a script that was a add-on purchase with 5.0
2) or Someone forgot to add it to the scripts directory
3) or Someone forgot to remove it from the default util menu
4) I've got a 4.X util menu (most likely possible)

My guess for your problem is that the map file is not being converted is 
why
your problem is happening. I can't be of much more help without the script.

--
Walter



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