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Business Basic applicaton move from Open Server 5 to Linux
I have a Business Basic application running on SCO Open Server 5. We no longer have the install disks for the application. Is it possible for us to somehow move the Business Basic Application to a Linux box and if so how would we do it? Is it likely that the Business Basic application might have some hooks into the Open Server OS that might make it hard to move to a different OS/different hardware?
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Thanks. I will check further and get back if I have any more questions.
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It turns out to be BBx PROGRESSION/2. What steps would I have to take to convert it so that it runs on a Linux distribution?
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Super. Thanks for all the info. I will give it a try. If I have any issues I will ask a related question.
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I come across the download page from basic.com and there are serveral versions of PRO/5. Which one should I use?
6.21
8.01
9.00
10.01
11.01
I believe I should try to the lowest version which is 6.21 but would like to get your advice.
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Tony
6.21
8.01
9.00
10.01
11.01
I believe I should try to the lowest version which is 6.21 but would like to get your advice.
Thanks,
Tony
You should be able to use any of them.
They are verry good at backward compatability.
Toe move from Rev3 to Rev4 you needed to run a conversion, otherwise prgrams should work as is.
They are verry good at backward compatability.
Toe move from Rev3 to Rev4 you needed to run a conversion, otherwise prgrams should work as is.
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Thank you.. I'm trying 6.21 now...
Download the Linix interpreter at Basis.Com and copy the files to Linux.
Basis has utilities to convert many dilects of Basic to PRO5.
mileage may varry