Re: Informix data extraction

In article <01bc02fa$24ac9160$9e53b5cf@steve-s> "Steven Hammond" <srh@netcom.ca> writes: >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. [snip] > >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? The PC copy is useless to you. Go back to the xenix box and find out what version of Informix is on it. If you have the scripts that the users are connecting by, this should be pretty trivial. If the engine is 5.x, you *should* have dbaccess. Extracting the data is then child's play. If it's 4.x (or 2.x) *and* you don't have isql *and* you don't have a development system, you have a problem. But some of us do still have systems even as far back as 1989. Forgot - 4.x has dbexport. This will dump out both the database definitions and all table contents, so you're still OK. syntax is dbexport databasename HTH Peter Wiley