Moving filePro files

[GCC Consulting]

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	From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Art Moore
	Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 3:07 PM
	To: filePro List
	Subject: Moving filePro files
	
	
	I am trying to move filePro files from a system that is around 8 years
old (Windows 98) to a new portable computer (Windows XP professional).  The
version of filePro on the new system is 5.#.  I do not know the version on the
older system but it is at least a few years old.
	 
	My first hope was LapLink (Gold 11.5) but the old computer does not have
USB ports.
	 
	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.
	 
	Thank you,
	Art Moore 
	 
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Art,

Do you have LapLinks parallel data transfer cable?  That would allow you to link
the 2 computers and transfer the file directly.  Or even just transfer the zip
file as Ken suggested without having to e-mail the file.  

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting