Re: Using C-ISAM files under INFORMIX-SE

In article <817044423snz@century.demon.co.uk> Terry@century.demon.co.uk writes: >Melvin > > >We altered the dirpath entry in systables so that the path of >the file pointed to the approprite files in the Multisoft >directory. Or in other words we fooled Informix into thinking >that the location of the data files was not a sub-directory of the >current one ( in a standard system ) but rather were the Multisoft >files. > >The site has now been running for 3 years with NO PROBLEMS >WHAT SO EVER > I tried this but had a problem. I was unable to define the schema so that the C-Isam files were defined the same as the Informix files. The problem was with the floating point numbers. I don't understand yet how to define a C-Isam long or double in INformix. --Kate > > > > > -- Kate Juliff MechoShade Systems Inc. Long Island City, NY. USA FAX 718 729 7567