Moving filePro files

[GCC Consulting]

Art,

If this is Win98 SE you probably can use the USB cable.  98Se can use USB as
long as the program has Win98Se USB drivers.

If there is no USB port in the computer, you could pick up one and install it in
the old computer.  Then after moving the files, install it in the new computer
for extra USB ports.

It appears that we are going to need more and more USB ports as everything wants
to connect through USB.  
Yes, I know firewire exists, but right now more stuff is USB.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Art Moore
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 12:23 AM
> To: rkreiss at gccconsulting.net; 'filePro List'
> Subject: Re: Moving filePro files
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
> 
> 
> > ______________________________
> >
> > 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
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > 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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