Dave, You are lucky that you have anything of R83 left!
Windows does not acknowledge that there can be any other operating system in th world. If you want to install a second OS (even wen installing Linux) you have to load winblows first. For serial ports, you can buy a USB-serial adaptor (try maplin) Mike On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:51:09 AM UTC, Dave Grenfell wrote: > > Tony: > > I'm back, all browned up and ready to begin. Hit my first snag. The > computer I was going to use for xp/jbase has no serial ports, so will have > to look for either an older box, or a serial port card. When I get this put > together, I will begin the transfer process. > > As an aside, I put R83 on an old Pentium 233 box, and it worked > perfectly. I then installed windows 2000 on the other half of the hard > drive, and now seems the only way I can boot PICK is to use the floppy to > execute the monitor. I guess the multiple boot thing doesn't work because > windows doesn't recognize the pick partition as valid. > > I will post progress reports. > > Dave. > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Pick r83 to jbase conversion > Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:00:27 -0800 > > Almost there! The Saved files are pulled from AccuTerm into your XP. So > when the save is complete, you have a directory with a bunch of files on > your PC. If nothing else you now have a good backup of R83 and it’s time to > take a vacation! > > > > When you’re ready, open a connection into jBase, check the code, compile, > create an account, etc. Then run the program to Restore into jBase. You’ll > be prompted for the path to the saved files which are on your XP. You’ll > probably need to do this a couple times to get a feel for the process. Be > sure you don’t accidentally blow away any changes you make to the > MIGRATION.BP programs. > > > > Each process is asynchronous, you do the save, stop, restore, stop. For > reference however, you can do multiple saves and restores simultaneously > with different AccuTerm sessions – you just wouldn’t be saving and restore > the same account at the same time. Hope that makes sense (and that someone > else here gets something out of this J ). > > > > When you get back, feel free to email me direct and we can setup a call to > discuss it a little more – I’ll spend some personal time with you to work > through some of this. But like I said, the code is free and open source, > but if we’re going to spend any “real” time with it then it would be nice > to put an hour on the clock. (Your client has gotten away without paying > for their system for a Long time, it’s not unreasonable to ask them to pay > something for a migration.) > > > > HTH > > T > > (Enjoy the vacation!) > > > > *From: *David Grenfell > > > > Tony: > > I am putting the system together in my head before leaving for vacation so > that I can concentrate of relaxing instead of working on the problem when i > should be having a rum&coke. > > I visualize it as this: > > I will have PICK running on one box and have jbase 10 on xp-pro and > Accuterm on a second box. I will have my xp system connected to PICK with > a serial cable, and run your save.restore using Accuterm (also on my > xp box). Will the "save" file be generated on the PICK system or on my xp > hard drive? > > I then must run your program again, this time accessing it on the xp box > to restore the saved file. If this file is on the PICK box, then I must be > able to specify it's location in Accuterm, and also where I want to save > the restore file. > > How am I doing? > > Dave > > -- > IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. > > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en
