Re: archecker unsupported in IDS 7.31?

Richard Spitz wrote: > art.kagel@gmail.com schrieb: > > >>Also the archecker version delivered with 7.3x does not contain the >>table recovery code. It can only be used to verify an archive. >>You COULD, however, use the archecker that's distributed with 10.00+ >>to extract data from an IDS 7.31 archive tape set as long as the >>ontape and archecker are from binary data compatible machines (ie >>big-endian/little-endian and if you have any floating point data then >>compatible IEEE FP implementations). > > > Wow! Thats sound almost too good to be true! > > I have IDS 7.31UD8 on Linux, so I could download IDS 10 for Linux from the > IIUG website, extract only the archecker binary and get going? > > I almost can't wait to try that out! > > Thanks for the hint, I'll report the results as soon as I get around to > testing this. I expect that that will probably work, but you may have to do a full install of IDS10 and set up an sqlhosts entry there pointing to the 7.31 instance (or point INFORMIXSQLHOSTS to the 7.31 sqlhosts file) and with INFORMIXSERVER set to the 7.31 instance and INFORMIXDIR pointing to the 10.xx installation directory - simply because the link of archecker MAY need the message files and shared libraries delivered with 10.xx. Art S. Kagel > Regards, Richard >