Dear Fortran Experts,
I apologize for bothering all of you with such a simple question, but need
a basic Fortran question answered.
I teach for a college which many, many years ago stored transcripts in a
Hibol-based database. We now have a 386, no longer connected to a network,
with this database still on a very old hard drive. I was approached when
the admin realized that they should be nervous about this setup, and very
rightly so. These records, about 10 years of student transcripts, are only
on this hard drive and do not exist in any other form. It is connected to a
9-pin dot-matrix printer and we do not have printer drivers to print out
decent copies using a modern printer in order to store hard copies, which
would be an option.
I am no familiar with Fortran and its commands. The computer does have a 5
1/4 360k floppy drive.
Question: How do we transfer this data so that it can be viewed by current
PCs? Can we translate it into ASCII text and copy onto floppies? What are
the commands to tranfer the data?
THANK YOU for any and all assistance.
Nedra Brill, Instructor
Western Business College
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