Converting a v8.3 db

Ah yes that will be the link that I went to first, however as it says it's unavailable at the moment I was wondering if anyone had an old copy sitting around that I could take a look at & the forums seemed like a good bet? :)
 
If you have v9 then the conversion command is:

$DLC/bin/proutil dbname -C conv89

If you have OE10 the v9 utilities are in $DLC/bin/91dbutils and v8 is in $DLC/bin/83dbutils you may need these to truncate the bi file prior to conversion.)
 
If your v8 database is not a multivolume structure, you would also need to run the 83makemultiv script which creates a multivolume structured database prior to converting to a v9 database.

Note - truncate the bi file and backup your database before proceeding.
 
Back
Top