Contents

• General Considerations
• Migrating User Data - vbackup
  • Usage of vbackup
  • vbackup Problems and Hints
  • vbackup Examples
  • vbackup List Examples
  
  
• Migrating VMS mail
• Migrating Fortran Binary Files to Unix
• Internal Format of Binary Files
• VMS Fortran Binary Read
• Floating Point Data Migration
• Migration of User Programs
  • VMS Run Time Library
  • Emulating Logical Names
  • Converting Floating Point Variables
  • Converting lib$cvt_dx_dx
  
  
• Unix Portability Problems
  • Source Code Porting
  • Run Level Compatibility
  • File Format Compatibility
  
  
• Linux Portability Problems
• Translation of DCL command files
• Concluding Remarks
• Bibliography
• About this document ...