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A legacy system is an old application, technology, mainframe, method, etc., still having an influence on an organization.

A legacy system is an old application, technology, mainframe, method, etc. that may or may not remain in active use, while still having a certain influence on an organization.

On one hand, maintenance of legacy systems and their integration with new solutions can be time consuming, particularly when a vendor's support is no longer available. On the other hand, legacy systems tend to be well-understood and thoroughly tested in production environments over the years since their deployment.

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Route print job to a pc instead of a dot matrix printer

I have a legacy system (black box) that does various calculations and prints to a dot matrix printer. Instead of printing to a printer, I would like to get rid of the dot matrix printer and connect the legacy system (black box) to another computer…
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RVM with legacy rails app. Can I set the version of rubygems?

I have a client on a legacy version of rails (2.2.2) Their environment is running with gem version 1.3.2. When I run gem -v on the new legacy gemset I've created with ruby 1.8.7 and rails 2.2.2, it says the version of gem is 1.8.25 Is there a way…
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activesupport-2.3.11 conflicts with activesupport (>= 3.0)

I am working on a Ruby on Rails project that a former programmer created. It is old code, using Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.3.*. I am not going to upgrade versions because all I need to do is add a few features and I don't want to break anything (and I'm…
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Legacy RMI call from a Spring Application

we have a service running in another server and can be accessed using legacy rmi calls (Corba). This server has nothing to do with Spring and lives in another place and we dont have any influence on the development and source. We have a Spring…
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Need help decompiling unknown application

I'm trying to rebuild a really old application. The program folder has about 74 files. I have no information about how it was built. And the application can't run on Windows 7 or XP. I am trying to figure out 2 things. What language was likely…
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Unity 4 - Imported non-humanoid character with animations. Can I add physics?

I am relatively new to Unity and I need help on something I am doing for a contract. I have a non-humanoid PC imported with animations as an fbx file so I have to do the animations through legacy scripting as far as I have been able to discover. I…
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Bypass flash player version check or override the existing version number?

Is it possible to bypass a flash player version check? I'm using an old embedded Linux device with FF 2.0 and Flash Player 10. Unfortunately we cannot upgrade the existing version any further. YouTube and many other video sites are working fine when…
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Grails table not found error on SQL 2008 legacy table

I'm trying to link a new Grails project to a pre-existing SQL server 2008 database, trouble is when I try to list/update or anything nothing works and I get an error reading Table "TEST_EXEC_QUEUE" not found; SQL statement: select top 10 this_.id…
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What database technology to use for legacy application?

I am looking for advice. I know stackoverflow likes "answerable" questions, I hope this is. I have a large legacy (Windows) application, using a proprietary (ISAM) database. I wish to investigate moving it over to using a SQL database: primarily…
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Running iOS SDK built in arm7 on arm7s

I have an SDK to achieve some special stream of video but I've got only the binary of this, I think this was built for arm7. I have an app built with this library and it runs great on iPhone 4, 4s and iPad 2 but when building for iPad 4th generation…
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Integrating multiple user account tables

I have three websites: a.example.com, b.example.com, and c.net. Each was built a couple years after the other and all have their own users table. I want to integrate these sites together so that I can login with a single username/password combo and…
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Fluent NHibernate references and legacy database

I have an entity public class classA { public virtual classAId id {get;set;} } It has a compositeId public class classAId { public virtual int a {get;set;} public virtual int b {get;set;} } classB references classA public class classB { public…
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Django and weird legacy database tables

I'm trying to integrate a legacy database in Django. I'm running into problems with some weird tables that result from horribly bad database design, but I'm not free to change it. The problem is that there are tables that dont have a primarykey ID,…
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Saving non existent doctrine2 relations with zero instead of null

In a legacy system we have a database that saves non existent relations with 0 instead of null. How can I get doctrine to save the parent row with 0 in the related column instead of null? Example: Comment-Table ------------------------------------ |…
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Convert old Code Help. VB6 (I think) to C#

I have tried follow this through, but I am struggling to get it into C#. Private Function TransmitHex(nChar As Byte, nOption As Boolean) As Boolean Dim sHex As String Dim nHi As Byte Dim nLo As Byte sHex = Right("00" + Hex(nChar),…
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