I need a red hat distro that contains the CCVS credit card processing
software.  The reason is, we are running CCVS on our AIX server, and
it's initial configuration is unknown to me.  I cannot decipher it's
CCVS.CONF file, as it is binary, and I hope to install CCVS under a PC
platform, install CCVS, then use the CCVS_VIEWCONF program to view our
CCVS.CONF file from our AIX server.  I know it sounds convoluted, but
it's the only way I know of to find our how our credit card processing
software is configured.  Any help appreciated!

Brad Holman
bhol... at (no spam) cebridge.net

I need a red hat distro that contains the CCVS credit card processing
software. The reason is, we are running CCVS on our AIX server, and
it's initial configuration is unknown to me. I cannot decipher it's
CCVS.CONF file, as it is binary, and I hope to install CCVS under a PC
platform, install CCVS, then use the CCVS_VIEWCONF program to view our
CCVS.CONF file from our AIX server. I know it sounds convoluted, but
it's the only way I know of to find our how our credit card processing
software is configured. Any help appreciated!

bradholman <bhol... at (no spam) cebridge.net> wrote:

I need a red hat distro that contains the CCVS credit card processing
software.

I believe that 5.2 includes this software. Where can I find a copy?

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bradholman <bhol... at (no spam) cebridge.net> wrote:
I need a red hat distro that contains theCCVScredit card processing
software.
I believe that 5.2 includes this software.  Where can I find a copy?

Name        :CCVS               Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.1.8               Vendor: HKS, Inc.
Release     : 4                   Build Date: Thu 08 Oct 1998 06:55:42 AM MST
Install Date: (not installed)     Build Host: roy.hks.net
Group       : Applications        Source RPM:CCVS-2.1.8-4.src.rpm
Size        : 2110821             License: commercial
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : Doug DeJulio <d... at (no spam) hks.net
Summary     : processes credit card transactions
Description :CCVSallows you to process credit card transactions in exactly the
same way that a point-of-sale termnial does.  It includes development
kits for C, TCL/Tk, and Perl, so you can incorporate live credit card
processing into just about any application.

That's the package description data from the "Vendor Disc Oct 1998",
so it was included in the 'demo' disk that came with an official
version.  Now, _where_ you're going to find a copy is another matter
entirely.   That's nearly eleven years old, and we long since disposed
of the CDs.  I notice it has a "commercial" license what-ever that
means, but is a source rpm.   The hks.net domain still exists, but it
looks to be parked and inoperative.

Hmmm...   I don't know it this might be helpful, but at sunsite, in

/pub/linux/docs/LuCaS/Postgresql-es/web/navegable/programmer:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mirror mirror  4077 Apr 28  2002 ref.ccvs.html

/pub/linux/docs/LuCaS/Postgresql-es/web/navegable/todopostgresql:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mirror mirror  3849 Oct 12  2001 ref.ccvs.htm
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mirror mirror  4112 Apr 28  2002 ref.ccvs.html

I suspect that's something completely different and irrelevant.
Looking at my other archive directory listings, there _used_to_be_
a directory on the Red Hat ftp server in August 2001:

drwxrwsr-x    7 mleach  ccvs        4096 Mar 28 20:08ccvs/

./ccvs:
drwxrwsr-x    2 mleach  ccvs        4096 Mar 28 20:08 3.0.3/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mleach  ccvs        4096 Mar 28 20:08 3.2.1/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mleach  ccvs        4096 Mar 28 20:08 3.3/
drwxrwsr-x    3 mleach  ccvs        4096 Aug 28  2000 3.3..1/
drwxrwsr-x    3 mleach  ccvs        4096 Feb  9  2001 3..3.2/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 mleach  ccvs           5 Jan  3  2001 current -> 3.3.2/

that contained:

    868100 Mar 30  2000ccvs-3.2.1-i86-redhat42.tar.gz
    962507 Mar 30  2000ccvs-3.2.1-i86-redhat51.tar.gz
   1075544 Mar 30  2000ccvs-3.2.1-i86-redhat6.tar.gz
    870591 Mar 30  2000ccvs-3.2.1-i86-suse52.tar.gz
   1314530 Mar 30  2000ccvs-3.2.1-rs6k-aix42.tar.gz

and

   1269133 Dec 20  2000ccvs-3.3.2-i86-redhat6.tar.gz
   1260518 Nov 27  2000ccvs-3.3.2-i86-redhat7.tar.gz
   2700893 Feb  9  2001ccvs-3.3.2-rs6k-aix42.tar.gz

(among others) these were apparently related to Red Hat 6.2 and 7.0,
although I don't show any listing on the 6.2 or 7.0 CDs.  Perhaps
poking around the Red Hat site might be useful.

        Old guy

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...

We are in a situation where we need to change the
phone numberCCVSis using to dial out for our credit card
authorization, but this information is locked in the .CONF file.
 ...
We don't know of a utility that will modify the .CONF file (to for
instance change the phone number).  We are stuck!

    strings - filename | grep $phone_number

will show if the phone number exists in the binary file in text form. If it
does, then sed is your friend, e.g.:

sed -e 's|\(123\)-456-7890|(765)-321-4980|g' filename > newfilename

I've used sed to make such changes on binary files before with great
success, if you take care to replace with the exact same number of
characters.

We are in a situation where we need to change the
phone number CCVS is using to dial out for our credit card
authorization, but this information is locked in the .CONF file.
...
We don't know of a utility that will modify the .CONF file (to for
instance change the phone number). We are stuck!

I appreciate the feedback. Unfortunately, the .CONF file appears to
be encrypted. I have loaded it into a hex file editor, and cannot
tease any of the data out of it that I know are contained in the file.