Are .frm and .rep platform independent
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 94 02:43:01 -0600
Message-ID: <39013044_at_f573.n115.z1.fidonet.org>
- Quoting Bruceh_at_Equis.Com to All dated 04-21-94 ***
> From what I understand .frm and .rep files are platform independent.
> Has anyone had the experience of creating such files on one platform,
> copying them to another and having them run successfully?
This is incorrect.
.FRM files are NOT platform independent, but .INP files are. I have been 100% successful in moving an .INP file from one platform to another, creating a new .FRM, and having it work without any changes. For that matter, it also works if I store the form in the database, and recompile for another platform. For reports, you would use dumprep and loadrep to generate platform-independent files.
> Will code that has been precompiled (PRO*C) on one platform
> compile successfully on another platform (if code is standard C
> and both platforms have std C compilers). Has anyone actually tried
> this?
Yes, it does work, given that assumptions. Be aware, however, that default compilation parameters may be different for different platforms. Received on Fri Apr 22 1994 - 10:43:01 CEST