Re: Informix 3.30

This sounds like an Op Sys problem - not an Informix one. I used to hit this all the time when a supplier sent the wrong bins. Although SCO has a high degree of campatability there are a few hitches. You could post this to a SCO newsgroup. As for instalation, current informix and SCO combibations you should insatll via the custom utility. My SCO is Altos OEM and has a utility sysadmsh which front ends the process but this could be and Altos add on. > I want to move a copy of Informix Ver.3.30 from a 386 computer using SCO Unix > System V Ver 5.3d to a 486 computer using SCO Unix System V/386 Release 3.2 > Ver 4.1. Unfortunately, my predecessor did not leave me installation > instructions. I tried to tar the floppy diskettes; I get the files unarchived, > but I also get a checksum error. When I try to run an Informix program, I get > the message 'memory fault - core dumped'. > > I also tried using tar to backup and restore the files between the computers, > but I still get the memory fault error. What can I do? > > I have a copy of Informix Ver. 4.1, but I don't want to take the several > months is will take to convert all of the screens, reports, scripts and > C programs. I would rather take that time and upgrade to something even more > current. > > Thanks for any help/suggestions. > > jkharris@utk.edu > -- Martin How Buonacorsi Consulting Limited