will old filepro work on XP computer

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bob Stockler (Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:40:59 -0400):

> 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).

You also have to convert from big-endian to little-endian, fix
the naming differences, and correct checksums in the files.
This would be more easily done by putting them on a modern *nix
system, converting to little-endian with swapcpu, and then using
xfer to convert to Windows format.

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

I don't think I've seen 8-1/2" floppy drives for Windows boxes.  :-)

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