[PENNMUSH] Converting a Win32 Database over to Unix

[K Moon]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Chris Tankersley wrote:

> Has anyone had any experiance with this? I have a database that I want
> to move from a slightly older Win32 install over to a Fedora Core 3
> server, and path Pennmush up to the current patch level.
>
> The Win32 Port was 1.7.6 patchlevel 7. I have discovered going from
> that to the newest Pennmush doesn't quite work, so it looks like once
> the database is converted over I'll need to do some patching to go
> from *nix 1.7.6pl7 up to the current.

It might be a bad idea to upgrade from pl 7.  I would suggest trying to 
import it into the newest version of 1.7.6 possible, then try importing 
again with a clean tarball of 1.8.0 (which should be able to handle the DB 
upgrade, haven't done it so I don't know why it wouldn't work right now).

1.8 made some changes to make porting Win32 DBs easier; if you're going to 
try it with 1.7.6, you'll have to become more familiar with weirdness like 
the crypto system (SHS, which has been the default for some time, makes 
this easier, though) and other Win32-isms I don't recall (I assume you're 
already aware of possible line ending issues).

Let us know how it goes. :)