At 04:38 PM 5/23/2002 -0400, Rick Fincher wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm looking at the possibility of moving a Soaris based gdb file to a
>Linux box. Are the file formats compatible? I've tried moving a gdb file
>from Solaris to Windows with no luck. Any idea if it will work from
>Solaris (Sparc) to Linux?
>
>I can reconstruct the database, but it would be a lot easier to move the
>files.

If you have InterBase or Firebird installed on both boxes, run gbak on the
linux
box with a command line that causes it to open and backup the database on the
Solaris box, putting the backup file on the linux box. Restore the database
on the Linux system.

The short answer is that alignment and other oddities (endianism) are the
same on linux and windows, so if a copy doesn't work from whatever Solaris
you're using to Windows, it won't work to Linux.


Regards,

Ann
www.ibphoenix.com
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