Stan, et. al.

Thanks for your response.  Here are some follow-up questions: I've
been advised to send these questions to the support list:


  1. Am I right in assuming that once one has converted Lsoft to ODBC
  back end, this back end can have arbitrary fields added to it for use
  by other bits of software. I want to write some custom applications
  using the data that Lsoft keeps:

  2. My client has data that is part of an lsoft server which has other
people on it - will it be possible to separate out the bits he has from the
database?

3. Can Lsoft use SQL server as a back end (I think I read it can)?

4. Is there a copy of the database structure available for use in making
custom perl/asp scripts?

  Thank you



>On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, William Grassie wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm evaluating L-soft for a customer who already has a list on
>> another licensed version, but wants to migrate it onto a new server
>> with his own license. Does anyone know how would we get the data off
>> of their server onto ours.  In one scenario, we would use Listserv on
>> a new machine, but want to make the archives available to the search
>> engines through some kind of parallel database.  In the other
>> scenario, we would decide not to use LSoft and just export the
>> archives as a CSV or some other interoperable format.  Thanks for
>> your help.
>
>Migrating files between Listservs is easy Billy. You just take the .log
>files and the .list file and move them to the appropriate Listserv. You
>then need to stop and restart the Listserv so it recognizes thenew list
>and build's the list's archive for web access. You might also need to
>modify the list's "Notebook" keyword to reflect the new location of the
>archived mesages.
>
>Migrating a list to another type of list managerment package is an
>entirely different matter and it depends on the new package. Suffice it to
>say that you'll probably need to do some conversion of both the .log files
>and the .list for for your list in order to format them in the way the new
>list management software requires.