Re: Exporting or Reading AdA SAGE files?

[achrist@easystreet.com]

pinkmail wrote:
> 
> I wanted to find out if there were tools or utilities that could be used
> to generate an extract or dump of ADA Sage database files.  I have an
> application that I've inherited, where the source code has been lost in
> the mists of time.  I need more direct access to the core system data, but
> it is all stored currently in ADA sage database files.  On my current
> systems, I don't have any of the sage libraries or an ada compiler, so my
> preferred route would be to run a process to extract the data from these
> data files.
> 
> Does such a tool exist, and if so, would you have any information on this
> utility?
> 
> Presumably my other option would be to write an ada application and link
> in the sage libraries to perform this extraction. If this option is my only
> solution, would you have a recomendation for a win32 ada compiler that I
> would be able to use with the ada sage distribution?
> 
> thanks!

The Walnut Creek Ada CD's used to have all the source for AdaSage.  You
might try to find one of those to see if you can reverse engineer the
data structures.  AdaSage was a port of a system originally written in 
Modula-2 and the Modula-2 code was available, once.  If you could find
that, it might help you, too.  There was also a users' group that might 
be able to help you.  Can you get any help through that Northwest 
National Laboratories site?


Al