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Annotation of 43BSD/ingres/CONVERT, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: The new ingres version 8 system has a number of changes and enhancments
                      2: over the version 7 system. However, the databases that were made with
                      3: the old system are NOT compatible with the new system. However, there
                      4: exists a program that will convert version 7 databases into version 8
                      5: databases. You will need your 4.2 binaries to use the conversion
                      6: utility. You should have moved your old bin directory to bin7 before
                      7: this distribution tape was loaded. If not you will have to restore
                      8: those binaries from your system dumps. Once the bin7 directory is in
                      9: place, you should check that all the 'proctab7' files in the files
                     10: directory has the line:
                     11: DB:$P/bin
                     12: changed to
                     13: DB:$P/bin7
                     14: 
                     15: The system administrator should then do the following to convert all
                     16: the databases.
                     17: 
                     18: % su ingres
                     19: % cd ~ingres/data/base
                     20: % mv READ_ME .READ_ME
                     21: % foreach j (*)
                     22:  ? ~ingres/bin/ingconv -s $j
                     23:  ?end
                     24: % mv .READ_ME READ_ME
                     25: 
                     26: That will convert all the normal databases on a machine.  However,
                     27: ingconv does not work with indirect files. It is suggested you change
                     28: them into symbolic links before running ingconv on them. If you don't
                     29: know what an indirect file is, you probably aren't using them.

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