[ale] Partially OT: moving apps from old to new PC's (non-Linux)

[zeb]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 01:53, Brian Chase wrote:
> griffisb at bellsouth.net wrote:
> >>From: Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>
> >>
> >>I've got to say, this is a perfect opportunity to move them to
> >> Linux. Save them money, and have more robust systems.
> >>
> >>Don't tell me they can't learn it, my 60+ mother-in-law is on
> >> SuSE 9.0 right now and has been on Linux for a couple of years
> >> now.
> >>
> >>Email and browser at first.  Most recently using OpenOffice to
> >> maintain the family reunion address book.
> >
> > It would be good. My main concern is that the Parish records are
> > in a Paradox database (old stuff, it loads under DOS on the
> > server). I'd hate to tackle that project. But, since there should
> > be a few "spare" PC's after all data is transferred and tested,
> > it would be a good idea to set up at least one Linux PC.
>
> The Paradox database might not be as painful as you think.  I'm
> sure Paradox has some sort of flat-file export, CSV, tab-delimited,
> etc. Might import into PostgreSQL or MySQL with a little bit of
> tweaking.

I used Paradox a great deal in the past.  It has the capability to 
export a "comma delimited" file.  I have used it to transfer 
databases.  Hope this helps; apologies if it doesn't.
--Zeb
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