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Cross-version incompatibility?

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I tried posting this on the MultiValue group, but it hasn't even been
reviewed by a mod for posting yet (24 hours or so later), so I will
try here in an unmoderated group.

I have a backup of a file (containing Basic programs, if that matters)
that was created on a jBase system (3.4, I believe) running on Windows
NT.  I no longer have access to the server (it's been decommissioned
and reformatted, since we no longer use either jBase or the
application that it was used to run) so I can't tell what file type it
was created as, but I do know that Windows sees the file as a file,
not as a directory.

I have recently discovered that I need to use a few of the programs in
that file.  They will need to be re-written in another language on
another platform, but they worked well, and they would make a good
starting point.

I have access to a system running UniVerse (10.1) on a Linux platform.
I copied the file from Windows to the Linux server using ftp but I
cannot access the file.  I created a voc entry as follows but I get an
error that UniVerse is unable to open the file if I try to LIST the
file (Unable to open "WINFILE" file), and I get an error that the file
does not exist (No "WINFILE" file)
<1> F
<2> WINFILE
<3> D_VOC

Is there an inherent incompatibility between jBase and UniVerse files
that will stop me from accessing this file on UniVerse?

If I absolutely have to, I could probably install a trial version of
jBase to get the files I need, and save them that way. But is there
something easier?

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