Posted by Jim Guerber on Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:50:53 :
Joe,
I knew there were programs out there that comet could not execute.
Please, Please, please try to find the sources.
I am passing the semi-colon one on to Keith Smith who knows more about
Qaccess than anyone else on the planet.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Forani [mailto:joeforani@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 1:43 PM
To: Jim
Subject: re: CONVPAK
Hi Jim,
I was talking to Barbara today and she suggested that I talk to you
about some problems I am having with CONVPAK. Yes, believe it or not
there is still a Qantel user out there and I am in the process of
getting them set up on Comet.
I followed Bryce's instructions:
First, let's talk about converting a Qantel system to Comet. Some
time ago, we put together a "conversion package" that contains a
pre-configured version of Comet 504 (required for Qantel
conversions), QTerm, and QACCESS. You can find this package
at:
http://www.signature.net/download/Unsupported/convpak.zip
The documentation for the package is located at:
http://www.signature.net/download/Unsupported/convpak.txt
Everything worked fine once Twila gave me a temporary password for my
plug in order to process large files (I wasn't able to covert large
files in the demo mode), until I tried to convert some object programs
that had been compiled using the linkage compiler (I can tell by the
SOLR, etc at the beginning of the program). I don't know how this works
(I had seen it years ago working with QMRP) but when I try to convert
the program through QACCESS - it hangs. I have inherited these programs
so I don't know the first thing about them or even if I can compile them
on the Qantel, but is there anyway to convert them?
The other hiccup with QACCESS was when trying to covert keyed files the
began with a semi-colon. QACCESS returned an error "***** HEXCP=0,
REXCP=11 *****". So what I did was rename them in Qantel, converted
them and then renamed them back on Comet. Just wondering though what
the problem was.
Thanks for you help.
Joe Forani