<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica>My network and another is merging... </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>We're going to stay with my copy of services (latest 5.0 beta) .. but they are using 4.2.x ... </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>They have abotu 250 users, and I have about the same -- any ideas how we can do the following tasks:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>1. Import their 4.2.x services databases (chan.bc and nick.db i think is all we need) into our 5.0beta databases</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>2. During import, NOT import duplicate nicks or channels.....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>My 3rd question is this method of exporting and importing using that database for xml or whatever it is.... how complete is the export/import?  Will all the channel settings access levels, nicks, memos and so on be saved in that format?  If so, then I thin kI can solve my first 2 questions, by simply upgrading their databases to 5.0 and then exporting both out to xml  and use Excel to merge them... </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>can anyone help?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thanks</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>