Upgrade from 5.1.6 to 9

[Michel Benevento]

I wouldn't be too worried about te height of the 9.0 number, which is 
99% marketing inspired, as was 8.0. So technically you are looking at a 
5.x to a 7.x upgrade, file formats haven't changed (I think) and you 
can copy-paste between the two.

So I would start with running the 9.0 app with your original .root 
file(s) and see if that works. From there you can start thinking about 
implementing some of the structural changes (guest databases, tools, 
etc.) the newer versions have brought.

Michel



On woensdag, okt 16, 2002, at 12:43 Europe/Amsterdam, nate at int-res.com 
wrote:

> Hello,
> Has any body ever upgraded from 5.x to 9? I think it will probably be 
> a colossal amount of work, but I have no idea where to start. Can 
> someone please give me a clue as to where to begin? What sort of inner 
> workings of my database need to be changed in order to be supported by 
> 9?
>
> This question will come later of course:
> How do I make an old site created in pre-Manila 5.1.6 accessable by 
> Manila once I pull a copy of my present database into my new Frontier 
> and get it working?
> I've tried searching the archives here but I don't know if any of what 
> I found pertains to my problem.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips and/or links
>
> Nate
>