By default, UniBasic files are restricted to a maximum of 2 GB, which is the maximum file size supported by most Unix operating systems. On some platforms such as Linux or AIX, Universal files can be created as "huge" files with the "" attribute. Such files can grow much larger than 2 GB. It may be necessary to configure special operating

UniBasic BCD Contiguous, Formatted and Indexed files can be converted to Universal Data files using the ubconvert utility.

Universal Data files require minimum product revisions and cannot be accessed by older releases.

Universal Data files are hardware and product independent data files that contain UniBasic BCD data. They may be shared or moved among different Unix platforms without conversion. In addition, they may be used concurrently in UniBasic, dL4 for Unix and Windows, and IQ for Unix and Windows.

UniBasic programs first need to be decoded to a text file using the DUMP command on the source platform and then LOADed on the destination platform.

A large group of programs can be moved using the DIR and MAKECMND supplied utilities. Please refer to the UniBasic Reference Guide for details.