DBase File I/O Rountines in FP
Alan Mazuti
amazu at trusteeservicesinc.com
Wed Oct 19 08:50:10 PDT 2005
I remember seeing it. If memory serves me correctly it was something Ken
did to show the power of the new tools.
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[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Harrison
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:42 AM
To: keithw at uti.com; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: DBase File I/O Rountines in FP
--- 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.
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