In article <[log in to unmask]>, Chris Breemer
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>[snip]
>
>I can't quite see the issue here. If you want to copy a Turbo DBMS to another
>3k
>I suppose you'd use a native tool like dscopy, not ftp. And what's the use of
> ftp-ing a
>turbo database to a non-3k where you can't use it ?
>Am I missing something here ? Just curious...
>
>TIA
>
>        Chris

When you want to send a letter snailmail, why put it in an envelope?
After all, no-one can read it in there.... :-)

I don't know about database transfers per se, but I copy HP3000 files,
intact, via a PC on a regular basis.

By far the easiest way to get a patch to one of our customers is to
transfer the source or executable from our HP3000 to my PC with
Reflection, as a LABELed file, and then to dial up the customer from my
PC modem and transfer the file onto their HP3000, with all attributes
intact.

DSCOPY doesn't cut it over several hundred miles of POTS, and I can
drive the process better from Reflection anyway.

I guess if I wanted to move a database (maybe a little test/demo one),
I'd want the same methodology. Even if the intermediate hardware had no
idea what it was transporting....

(BTW, why does everyone call it Reflections? It's Reflection, singular.
Nobody talks about MS92s, or Advancelinks.......)

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