Re: SQL*Forms Portability

In article <371rp6$bng_at_DGS.dgsys.com>, acmoll_at_dgs.dgsys.com (Andrew C. Moll) wrote:

> Steve Edelstein (74160.645_at_CompuServe.COM) wrote:
> : I haven't tried to move from PC to MAC, but the text files that
> : are created in the File, Convert choice of the main menu in OF4
> : should move as ASCII files, and then be generated on the MAC with
> : no problem. The resulting files should run fine.
>
> How about porting a FORMS application from VMS to AIX or UNIX
> in general? Does anybody have any words of wisdom for something
> like that??
> Thanks,
> Drew Moll
I've transfered a forms23 application from IBM host VM/CMS to my mac and generated it with forms4 without any error, but then, who really wants an old block mode application with these funny 2.3 triggers in a GUI environment? But anyway, it works. Also an inp file from VMS forms3 transfered to AIX and generated it under forms3 and it worked. I also transfer a dmp file in binary mode from VM/CMS (ver 6.0.32) to my sun and import it there in a 7.0.12 database and it works and as I have set my NLS_LANG env and the sun database is with the character set iso-8859, I get all my chars converted, even german umlauts. I've alos successfully imported a dmp file from a PC Oracle into my sun database and it worked so portability of Oracle is a big Yes-Yes.

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