Re: Installing 4GL

Maybe I'm plain stupid, but won't that overwrite the newer version of the tool with the old one?! Ciao, Marco _______________________________________________________________________________ Marco Greco <marcog@ctonline.it> rem radioterapia +39 95 447828 fax 446558 Informix faq http://www.iiug.org/ 4glworks http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog Mark D. Stock wrote: } } Art S. Kagel wrote: } > } > Michel Behna wrote: } > > } > > I am trying to determine whether the following information is } > accurate: } > > We just purchased Informix 4GL and to install it, it seems we need } > to } > > install it first and then the Informix engine. Here's the rub: we } no } > > longer have the original installation media :-( and to reinstall } > Informix } > > 7.2 on our Solaris 2.5.1 Sun machine is not currently possible. } > > } > > Is there any truth to this information or am I being fed a line? I } > am } > > finding this hard to believe... so please clarify this for me. Is } > there a } > > work around to re-installing the engine? Maybe copy some files or } > > something like that... please help. } > > } > > I need authorative and definitive information on this situation so } I } > can } > > take it back to management. } > } > This used to be really critical. As of 7.1? (something) this } > requirement is supposed to be fixed. The problem was that the tools, } > which are usually a version behind the engine, overwrite the message } > files which the engine installs. If you tar your current installation } > first and then install 4GL you should be OK now. If not you will be } > able to restore the tar archive to fix anything that the 4GL install } > broke. BE SURE TO TAR AND UNTAR AS ROOT so that permissions are } > correct after restoring. } > } > Perhaps Jonathan or someone else from Informix will comment on this } > plan so you can feel more comfortable? } } I don't know about the 7.1 story, but the tar story looks good. } You could also install 4GL into a new directory, then tar or cpio your } current directory over the new one, rm the current directory and rename } the new directory. } } Cheers, } -- } Mark. } } +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ } |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| } |mailto:mdstock@informix.com FAQ http://www.iiug.org |///// / //| } | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| } | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| } | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| } |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| } +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+