On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 15:45 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: > Carsten Haese wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 14:57 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: > >> I need to read some data from an old system that is running on a 1999 > >> linux box. > >> Using strings, I find: > >> > >> FairCom(R) Server and c-tree Plus(R) > > > > According to http://www.faircom.com/products/ctree/CTP_APIs.shtml there > > doesn't seem to be a Python API, as if that's a surprise, but there are > > a low-level ISAM API and a C API. With any luck, one of those APIs > > should already be on that server. That might be enough to at least get a > > data dump. > > Well, I did C back in 1900's, so my skills are a bit rusty. I did find this: >
If you're better in Perl, god forbid, there's http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/Db-Ctree/Db/Ctree.html Alternatively, if the C API is present as a shared object (.so), you could try to use it from Python with ctypes. Then again, depending on the hairiness of the API, that may require a strong stomach and a high pain threshold. Good luck, -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
