On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:32:54 -0400, David Friedlander wrote:
>P.S. Last year I migrated from SunOS to Solaris for which I had to put
>together a small perl script to convert from an NDBM file to a GDBM file
>for the /etc/pop.auth file. It worked fine and I did not have to recreate
>the APOP database. Now, that did not cross computer architecture
>boundaries, but it does show that at least some conversions are possible.
My approach would be to write a small utility to read out the contents
of the DB on the Solaris box, dump it to a text file, and then another
mirror utility to recreate the DB on the Linux box. Sounds like you may
have Perl support for that so you don't even need to code any C.
Ken
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