Kevin, That is very difficult to answer. My systems which were originally written on Fujitsu hardware and include about 600 subroutines, 1 program and about 8 procs took less than 1 hour to convert from 3.4 to 4.1 which is the same conversion process as 5.2. IT really depends on how well the 3.4 system is organized and understood. Original conversions from 3.4 to 4.1 were plagued with undocumented features of 3.4 of which people took advantage. For example, all passed COMMON is actually dimensioned arrays, In other words COMMON A, B, C is the same as COMMON D(3). This is one of the more esoteric examples, but literally hundreds of such things were discovered in the many years 4.1 has been out. Those are very rare now and that part of the conversion process is no longer an issue. With that in mind, a well understood system can usually be converted from 3.4 to 5.2 fairly quickly and with very little hassle. The conversion of course is much easier in Linux since it can easily run both version at the same time.
Dan Ell From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Powick Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 10:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: jBASE migration 3.4 to 5.2 - How difficult? How much hassle is a migration from jBASE 3.4 on Windows to jBASE 5.2? It is not required that the 5.2 platform be Windows, but the client would prefer if it was. -- Kevin Powick -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[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
