Sharing files between SCO 5.0.5 and Current ver of Red Hat

[ttyguy]

I do not know if this is going to be a problem or not but, I need to know if it is going to be possible to share files between a SCO 5.0.5 system and a system running the most current version of Redhat. Here is my scenario. I am currently running a POS system on a SCO 5.0.5 system and I need to know if it will be possible to copy certain files (not system files) over to a system running Redhat. I guess my question is will Redhat interpret the SCO files as Redhat (formatted) files.
My hope is to copy these files to the Redhat system. Once the files are on the Redhat system, I would like to connect to them via an OBDC connection to a SQL 2000 server (via a product put ot by Transoft).
If anybody has any thoughts, ideas or comments; please let me know.
Thanks,
ttyguy

 

[apeasecpc]

ODBC Access? What are these files? Where did they come from? If the files are part of some third party database, the OS platform they are on shouldn't matter.

Why aren't you doing the ODBC straight from the SCO server? Are you hoping they will work on Redhat because they aren't working on SCO, or is there another reason?

For ODBC to work the files have to be an ODBC recognizable format. Copying from one system to the other won't magically change the format of the files if it is wrong to begin with.

 

[Hemo]

I currently use NFS to use/share files between a few unix/linux varients. Works for me.