OT: (a little) FilePro Export to RW

[guy_templin]

I am doing that. I have just upgraded from Real World to Pass-Port 3 weeks 
ago. I will check my file layout and send it to you, it may take me a day or 
two. I at one time used Twoway to transfer my invoices but had to write my 
own, when they went missing. I had some layout issues as Real World changed 
file layouts, What I am doing may not be pretty but it works.

Guy Templin
Adelphi Kitchens, Inc.


On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:38:01 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote
> 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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