InterBase to Oracle conversion?

Question

How to unpack Interbase to Oracle conversion tool (.z) files. I tried with gzip but I got a massage: Not a gzip file. This file is small, about 27K. That is strange.

Answer 1

Hello Tom,
Thanks for the response. I had given DOC as the extension
and the I am able to open the word document. Just that I
was quite surprised by the contents
IBASE_TAR.doc looks like as shown below in MS Word 97 with
lots of strange characters in between(which I cannot
paste here - dont know why...(:- )
intspsol_tar.doc was even more wilder. I could not read
anything from it.
Am I doing something wrong? How do I use both these word
files to convert my interbase to oracle? Does it need to
undergo some processing to use it??
Pls help
Thanks
Donny
IBASE_TAR.doc starts here
./convkit/ 775 535 1750 0 6325121327 5707 ./convkit/interbase/ 775 535 1750 0 6325121322 7656 ./convkit/interbase/data/ 775 535 1750 0 6324432272 10577 ./convkit/interbase/data/stripper 666 535 1750 757 6324432272 12452 cat $1 \
|grep -v connect \
|sed '/^$/d' \
|grep -v "set term" \
|grep -v "commit work" \
|grep -v "\^" \
|sed 's/ *|/|/g' \
|sed 's/<null>//g' \
|sed 's/| */|/g' \
|grep "|" \
jm.txt \cat jm.txt|nawk -F'|' 'BEGIN{} \
do { \
if (substr($1,1,1)== "=") \
break;\
else \
printf ("%s",$0); \
printf ("\n"); \
}while(getline > 0); \
printf("\n"); \
' > jm2.txt
cat jm2.txt| grep -v ' '|sed '/^$/d'
./convkit/interbase/data/select.sh 666 535 1750 1002 6324432272 12472 cat tbl_col.dat|nawk -F'|' 'BEGIN{} \
x = 0; \
printf ("select ") > x; \
x = $1; \
col = $2; \
printf ("%s,\"|\"", col ) > x; \
getline; \
do {  \
y = $1; \
if (y > x){  \
printf (" from |%s|;\n", x) > x; \
close(x); \
printf("select ") > y; \
if (y==x) \
     printf (",") > x; \
x = $1; \
col = $2; \
printf ("%s,\"|\"", col ) > x; \
}while(getline > 0 ); \
printf (" from |%s|;\n", y) > y; \
This is just the first page......
and it goes on like this for another 331 pages...