Re: can't dbimport

In <3odrt3$m53@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> ddx85qr@bell-atl.com (Dave Snyder) writes: > >Quoting Bonnie Black... >} >} I spoke with Informix today to try to find out which utility (cpio, tar, >} dd, ?) is used in the dbexport so that we might be able to try to get to >} the data without the use of dbimport. They wouldn't/couldn't tell me. >} I didn't really expect much help from them at this point. This is why >} I'm coming to you folks. Does anyone out there know what might work? >} I'd be very grateful if you could share your expertise. >} >I had the same problem quite awhile ago but for a different reason. The >way I solved it was to "dd" the tape image onto disk and I then wrote >a C program that went through the tape image and changed the name of the >database. After that finished, I did a dbimport and instead of specifying >the tape device, I specified the tape image. > I had a similar problem a while back, and I concur with Dave's assessment. In my case, I had to restore a single table from the tape, so I was able to create a filter (the dd output is straight ASCII text with schemas and data; you should be able to parse it pretty easily). John Prideaux alastl@ix.netcom.com