Win2k HELP

[new_2_this]

Hi Everyone,
I'm really new to this so please bear with me. I need to get at the contents of a progress database for a client so that i can migrate some of it to oracle, somthing which i'm not totally familiar with. The budget wont really afford to buy Progress just for some data, so after reading a few posts on this forum about instsalling progress from POSSE , I have just installed progress and it all seemed to install in the right manner. However when i try to open any .p files or any other progress files i get a window telling me that its "unable to run startup procedure" it usually mentions a file it cant find then tells me to press the spacebar to exit. I'm really stumped here. Please can someone throw me a bone. I'm a bit wet behind the ears with all this progress stuff.
Thank you very much

 

[StefGay]

Hi, if you just want to download the database's contents you don't need any .p (.p are programms). Juste right-click on the.db file (.db are databases) select the data-dictionnary menu. In the data dictionnary program goto tools/data admin and in the data admin program select admin/dump/table contents.
In results you'll generate X flat files (one for each table) that you can import in oracle.

Regards.

Stéphane.

Hi Everyone,
I'm really new to this so please bear with me. I need to get at the contents of a progress database for a client so that i can migrate some of it to oracle, somthing which i'm not totally familiar with. The budget wont really afford to buy Progress just for some data, so after reading a few posts on this forum about instsalling progress from POSSE , I have just installed progress and it all seemed to install in the right manner. However when i try to open any .p files or any other progress files i get a window telling me that its "unable to run startup procedure" it usually mentions a file it cant find then tells me to press the spacebar to exit. I'm really stumped here. Please can someone throw me a bone. I'm a bit wet behind the ears with all this progress stuff.
Thank you very much