Re: Informix data extraction

Steve, Forget your PC copy. Log onto the client's system. Run isql, select the Query option. Select New. Type UNLOAD TO filename SELECT * FROM tablename. Press escape. Select run. The contents of the table specified by tablename will be extracted into the file called filename. Easy. Ian Steven Hammond wrote: > > Anyone who can help, > > I have recently acquired a customer who has a very old (I believe) version > of Informix. They are not sure of what version but said something like > version 5 or version 5.5? The system is about 6-8 years old. > > I need to extract their data for them. Their system is running on a PC > Xenix System with four dumb terminals. > > I copied what I believe is the customer database to a PC using and oldie > but a goodie, a binary Kermit transfer. I now have the database on my PC. > > My question. Is there an ODBC driver or some other means that I can read > this file and extract the data structures and data from it? > > Your help will be most appreciated. > > Steven Hammond > srh@netcom.ca > http://www.netcom.ca/~srh