DBase File I/O Rountines in FP

[Jeff Harrison]

--- keithw at uti.com wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I'm on the road so checking for myself is not really
> an option.
> 
> Somewhere in the back of my mind, I was thinking in
> either the v4.5 New
> Features Guide when File I/O functions were
> introduced (or maybe 4.8?)
> there was some sample code for natively reading
> dbase files as I recall.
> 
> Does anybody have that code typed-in/available that
> they could email me a
> copy?  I have to access a DBASE-III file, however it
> has to be updated and
> I cannot just convert to FP (using DBCopy) as I will
> be stuck out on an
> island if Itry to do so.
> 
> Regards,
> Keith
> 
>

I could be wrong, but I don't remember anything native
in fp like that.  The way I would handle this is I
would do a system call to another program that can
handle it.  Can you write vb code?  Or perhaps an
excel autostart macro?

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.



		
__________________________________ 
Yahoo! Music Unlimited 
Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.
http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/