[Dxspider-support] Upgrading CPU... HELP !!!

[Stephen J Carroll]

Dirk,

Awesome !!!  By issuing "/spider/data perl user_asc" I now have successfully 
transferred the precious data over to the NEW computer.

As always, MANY thanks !!!

73, Steve - K2SC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirk Koopman" <djk at tobit.co.uk>
To: "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Upgrading CPU... HELP !!!


> On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 08:53 -0600, Stephen J Carroll wrote:
>> I'm in the process of replacing the club's old Pentium 133 computer with 
>> a
>> faster model.
>>
>> OLD:  Win98SE, ActivePerl 5.6.1.633, DXSpider 1.51 (build 59.389) on 
>> MSWin32
>> NEW:  W2K SP4, ActivePerl 5.8.7.813, DXSpider 1.51 (build 59.389) on 
>> MSWin32
>>
>> I upgraded the ActivePerl on the NEW computer based on Dirk's previous
>> comments about 5.8.7.813 being needed for a future upgrade of the 
>> software.
>> Once the NEW computer was configured, everything seemed to initialize and
>> operate fine with the latest version of DXSpider. But then I tried 
>> getting
>> fancy...
>>
>> Since the OLD and NEW computers were running the same version of 
>> DXSpider, I
>> figured it would be safe to just copy over the entire /spider/data
>> directory. However, the startup initialization of DXSpider doesn't like 
>> the
>> copied version of USERS.V3 (or some other file) in the /spider/data
>> directory. I get an error message and the initialization ends and I'm
>> returned to the /spider/perl prompt.
>>
>
> Pretend that it is a corrupted users file (well it sort of is after
> all).
>
> Stop the node. Go to the /spider/data directory and run: perl user_asc
> (I am presuming that you have user_asc, user_asc.o, user_asc.oo etc).
>
> This will create a new version of your users file compatible with this
> version of DB_File. If you get problems with the user file, this is the
> way out and why the software generates a 'user_asc' file once a week.
>
> Incidentally, this is one of the things that I hope will be fixed by
> using DBI and SQLite.
>
> Dirk
>
>
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