vax to ux conversion (was nonsense subject)

[Terry Curran]

As far as I am aware the only safe way to transfer PH from VMS to Unix
(any flavour),
is to:

1) Create the PDL source on the vax - from within QSHOW.

2) Create PORTABLE subfiles of any data which is required on the Unix
box.

3) FTP the PDL source, and the Portsble subfiles (usually a .PSD and .PD
file) to the unix box.

4) Create a new Dictionary on the unix bos, from the PDL file using the
PDL compiler.

5) create empty data files using QUTIL.

6) Re-load the data files from the portable subfiles.

And hey presto, you have you VMS data on unix!

Most PH source files will compile successfully against the new
dictionary.

You will probably need to make changes to the data dictionary source
file. Unix does not support all the data types of VMS, and the file open
is different, but any competent PH programmer should be able to do this
- Cognos used to have a manual about making your code portable, but I am
not sure that you can still get it, it had general advice about source
files.

PS - I have transferred PH from DG/AOSVS -> DG/UX , DG/UX -> VAX/VMS,
VAX/VMS -> SCO/UX, and a few others.

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