Moving filePro files

[Art Moore]

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From: "GCC Consulting" <gcc at optonline.net>
To: "'Art Moore'" <cowboy at pcanswersinc.com>; "'filePro List'"
<filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 7:31 PM
Subject: RE: Moving filePro files


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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
>
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> 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
>
>
> Yes I do.  But, unfortunately LapLink has added to the incompatibility
problem in that they do not use the parallel cable in the new version (for
Windows XP) but only the USB port.
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