Moving filePro files

[Kenneth Brody]

Art Moore wrote:
[... moving filePro files from old computer to new ...]
> I have tried creating a file on the new computer with the name of the file to
> be sent over.  I put one field in the file definition with a length of 10
> characters.  Then I e-mailed all the files from the old system and saved them
> to the new file just described.  All the files got mailed and put into the new
> directory.  The screen works, the processing seems to be okay.  The map file
> is there in three forms 1. a readable text file, 2. a tmp file that is not
> readable by windows, 3. another file named map that is unreadable by windows.
> 
> When I go to the file definition the only thing there is the single field I
> created just to make the file available.
> 
> Can anybody help me with this.

Your e-mail program may have corrupted some of the files.

Zip the file on the old system, move the zip file to the new computer
(you can do this via e-mail, as it _should_ properly handle it as a
binary file), and unzip it in the new directory.


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