Re: Unknown version of Informix: how do I access tables?

> If all else fails the .dat files are ASCII. You could probably write > an awk script or something to extract the records, if you know the > columns. I hate to disagree with my partner here, but if there are numerics in there (or dates for that matter), I don't think awk will cope. Informix stores decimals as a packed value for sure, I'm not sure about "simpler" numeric types. Just a word of warning. -- Ciao, Billy +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Billy Wheeler Junior Programmer / Director The West Solutions Group | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Oracle isn't the answer. Oracle is the question, and the answer is "no". | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+