Re: IDS 2000 SOFTWARE

From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> > >To those who claim that the CPIO format is ubiquitous in Informix software >installations I have to say that except for SCO I have NEVER installed ANY >Informix product that did NOT use tar until Linux. I have now installed >Informix products on anything from an AT&T 3B1 to a Sun E10000, over a >dozen different platforms, not even counting the 5 different Sun platforms >I've installed it on, all using tar. I'm certain my last Solaris install, E10K, was tar for the engine cpio for the tools. Maybe different distributions centres use different formats?? My current system, AIX4.3.2/SE, has the engine released on tar and the tools in cpio Paul Watson WF Software Ltd Tel: +44 1436 674729 Fax: +44 1436 678729 www.wfsoftware.com/informix # If you broke it, hide the evidence

Paul watson wrote: > > From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> > > > >To those who claim that the CPIO format is ubiquitous in Informix software > >installations I have to say that except for SCO I have NEVER installed ANY > >Informix product that did NOT use tar until Linux. I have now installed > >Informix products on anything from an AT&T 3B1 to a Sun E10000, over a > >dozen different platforms, not even counting the 5 different Sun platforms > >I've installed it on, all using tar. > > I'm certain my last Solaris install, E10K, was tar for the engine cpio for the tools. > Maybe different distributions centres use different formats?? > > My current system, AIX4.3.2/SE, has the engine released on tar and the tools in cpio If by tools you mean SDK and iConnect then no they are distributed, even for Solaris, in tar format (well zipped tar for SDK but that's an IntraWare artifact). If you mean 4GL I have not installed 4GL in over 3 years (6.04 was the last I think) but that was was certainly in tar format, I still have the tar file on disk in my home directory. Art S. Kagel