Keypoint and Linux?

[RtX]

On 11/16/06, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO <brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
>  I'll admit I was wrong about Cobol being a database.  I guess it is in
> the sense that an encrypted text file or a spreadsheet could be
> considered the same.
> But you should at least admit that you are dealing with an old piece of
> crap.  And I mean that in the nicest possible way.  ;-)

Admitted. ;-)

Right now, I have used Ghost to dupe a copy for testing purposes. I
thought I would at least be able to mount the drive under Linux and
peruse the files however trying to mount a type 63 SCO UNIX (sysv)
filesystem does not work. I'm not sure if it's incompatible with Linux
or if it's a bum dupe. I read somewhere that I would have better luck
mounting the drive under one of the BSD's. ?!?!?!

>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: On Behalf Of RtX
> >Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:19 PM
>
> >
> >On 11/16/06, Jeremy Fowler <JFowler at westrope.com> wrote:
> >> Cobol is a programming language but it stores its data in
> >binary flat
> >> files. So in a sense it is its own database. There are applications
> >> that can extract data out of cobol files, but it's a messy
> >task. There
> >> is no such beast as an ODBC Cobol driver...
> >
> >I knew Cobol was/is a programming language. Someone pointed
> >the obvious out for me. Thanks. True, there is no ODBC Cobol
> >driver. Could make things interesting in data conversion. We'll see.
> >
> >> We had a Cobol based Agency Management system here four
> >years ago. We
> >> ended up moving to a SQL based solution from another vendor. We did
> >> have to extract some data from the Cobol app, but luckily the new
> >> vendor had experience with our old system and was able to do
> >that for
> >> us. The data wasn't very pretty.
> >
> >Did your vendor have to write a data conversion app? I would assume so.
> >
> >> I would recommend your client shop around for a more technologically
> >> advanced trucking system. Or have one designed.
> >
> >My client is happy with the current software so shopping is
> >probably not an option.
> >
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