Re: Converting .dat files to ASCII

[posted and mailed] Temp Nine wrote: > So, I set up a box with RedHat Linux and downloaded the > Informix & ESQL/C Bundle 7.24.UC5. I FTP's the .dat, .idx, & > .h files over from the AIX to the Linux machine. > > I set DBPATH to the data directory. I went into dbaccess to > try the load command to send the tables to an ASCII table, > but it can't find the database. I'm not really sure that ESQL/C is all you need to access an SE database with dbaccess. However, it's worth a try. With Informix SE, a "database" is really a directory with the name <databasename>.dbs which contains all the .dat and .idx files. Header files (.h) have nothing to do with the database itself. So put all the .dat and .idx files into a directory called <databasename>.dbs, set DBPATH to the directory where the database directory resides (NOT tothe database directory itself!) and try again. Don't forget to set your INFORMIXDIR to the directory where you installed your ESQL/C. HTH, Richard -- +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Richard Spitz | INTERNET: spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de | | EDV-Gruppe Anaesthesie | Tel : +49-89-7095-6110 <-- NEW! | | Klinikum Grosshadern | FAX : +49-89-7095-8886 | | 81366 Munich, Germany | GSM : +49-172-8933578 | +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+