Re: [firebird-support] Reviving an old firebird database (file conversion/programming hints)

2016-10-15 Thread Helen Borrie hele...@iinet.net.au [firebird-support]
Hello Mark, Saturday, October 15, 2016, 10:02:33 PM, you wrote: > On 13-10-2016 11:43, Helen Borrie hele...@iinet.net.au > [firebird-support] wrote: >> 64-bit or 32-bit - does not matter. You should be able to open that >> v.1.5 database with either Fb 1.5 or 2.0.6. You would probably get >>

Re: [firebird-support] Reviving an old firebird database (file conversion/programming hints)

2016-10-15 Thread Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl [firebird-support]
On 13-10-2016 11:43, Helen Borrie hele...@iinet.net.au [firebird-support] wrote: > 64-bit or 32-bit - does not matter. You should be able to open that > v.1.5 database with either Fb 1.5 or 2.0.6. You would probably get > some errors trying to open it in Fb 2.1 or 2.5. That has nothing to > do

Re: [firebird-support] Reviving an old firebird database (file conversion/programming hints)

2016-10-13 Thread Ann Harrison aharri...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support]
> On Oct 13, 2016, at 4:37 AM, Urs Liska fireb...@openlilylib.org > [firebird-support] wrote: > >> Am 13.10.2016 um 10:18 schrieb Elmar Haneke el...@haneke.de >> [firebird-support]: >> >> > 1) >> > I assume on LInux (Debian based Mint version and an Ubuntu

Re: [firebird-support] Reviving an old firebird database (file conversion/programming hints)

2016-10-13 Thread Helen Borrie hele...@iinet.net.au [firebird-support]
Hello Urs, > 1) > I assume on LInux (Debian based Mint version and an Ubuntu flavor) I > install a variant of the server (in the repository I find the 2.5 > variants, but I'd be also happy installing a downloaded 3.0 instead). > Then I need a generic DB manager like e.g. Flamerobin to do general

Re: [firebird-support] Reviving an old firebird database (file conversion/programming hints)

2016-10-13 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov s...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support]
13.10.2016 10:37, Urs Liska fireb...@openlilylib.org [firebird-support] wrote: > So that boils down to having to try out different versions of Firebird until > I find one > that can open the DB? No, you can use gstat from FB 2.5 to see ODS version in database header and derive right FB

Re: [firebird-support] Reviving an old firebird database (file conversion/programming hints)

2016-10-13 Thread Elmar Haneke el...@haneke.de [firebird-support]
> 1) > I assume on LInux (Debian based Mint version and an Ubuntu flavor) I > install a variant of the server (in the repository I find the 2.5 > variants, but I'd be also happy installing a downloaded 3.0 instead). > Then I need a generic DB manager like e.g. Flamerobin to do general >

[firebird-support] Reviving an old firebird database (file conversion/programming hints)

2016-10-12 Thread Urs Liska fireb...@openlilylib.org [firebird-support]
Hi all, after something like a decade I would like to revive an old Firebird database that I found on an old drive and need some starters to get me going. *Then* I developed it on Windows XP and mainly edited it using a generic DB management tool of which I forgot the name (it was a commercial