OT: (a little) FilePro Export to RW

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006, Kroboth, Joe wrote:
>Hello,
>
>
>Has anyone any experience exporting from filePro and importing into RW32
>(used to be Realworld, Passport software is keeping it alive.) We create
>Invoices in filePro. I just found out the accounting dept has been re-keying
>all invoices in A/R misc charges. Both run on the same SCO 5.05 system. 

It's been quite a while since I did any imports into RealWorld so I don't
remember the details offhand.  There is an ASCII import capability
requiring fixed length fields in a specific format if I remember correctly.
A customer of mine has the documentation n the RW COBOL record descriptions
so I could figure it out if necessary.  When I last did this, it wasn't for
updates into RW, but loading all data into a fresh RW system.

The first time I did an interface between FP and RW was 22 years ago in
1984 on a Tandy 16/6000.  I did the input to the RW programs by piping
input into the programs from awk scripts and/or C programs.  I went from RW
to FP by parsing the output of RW reports to create input to FP.

Bill
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