CF from NT to Solaris - ISSUES 1

[WallaceRandall]

We are getting a new Solaris system to replace an unstable NT environment. We are using Oracle 8 and will be moving to 8i at the same time. I have heard that there are issues with such a move such as: 1. Case sensitivity for filenames causing massive re-working of code. 2. Case sensitivity of filenames causing custom tag libraries to fail.

Does anyone have any general suggestions about these or other issues?

Thanks,

Wally Randall

 

[jad]

if your code works at the server end; filenames will also require \ to become / ...

you need to check all occurances of filenames, maybe using 'sed' or 'nawk' if there are lots of files ... and change all casing to lower case ...

you could then use a 'foreach' or similar to rename all files to the lowercase version.

if doing this via 'sed' then you'll want to correct the path at the same time, but that's not necessary if you don't use paths.

however if all you code works at the client you won't really have to do a great deal.

One big piece of advice is this: DON'T GO FOR INTERL SOLARIS we did and it does work well (appart from a little bit of small print saying multiple processors don't actually start up), but if you want any of the tools, or other products to work you won't be able to get them, and if you do we've found that they fail to install ...