will old filepro work on XP computer

Bob Stockler bob at trebor.iglou.com
Wed Jun 21 14:40:59 PDT 2006


Ken Brody wrote (on Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:46:52PM -0400):
[snip]

| Note that we recently had someone enquire about getting their filePro
| data from their old Tandy Xenix system to an XP box.  Sometimes, you
| can take "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" to the extreme.

Data ain't no problem at all.  Microsoft Services for UNIX,
UWIN, UnixUtilities, and others (all free) can all extract
compressed tar archives (and I think WinZip can also).

The problem most likely would be using sneaker-net to get
to get the data from point A to point B.

Bob

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