>Hello everyone,
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>I am working on a system in which I have to update Visual Foxpro files from an Acucobol accounting system. I have the source to the accounting system and can modify the programs.
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>When invoices, receipts or disbursements are posted in the accounting system, the data must also be written to their corresponding DBF equivalents.
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>I am replacing an old system that--seemed to--write small ASCII files and do a SYSTEM call to load a foxpro .exe that would read these files and then update the VFP dbf files.
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>Instead, I would like to either:
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>a) Open DBF files directly from AcuCOBOL (some kind of external file handler)
>b) Use an ActiveX control I can call from AcuCOBOL and pass it data that it will, in turn, write to VFP.
>- BTW, cObjects does not appear to exist anymore.
>c) Replicate from Vision (AcuCORP's file format) files to VFP files
>d) Suggestion from this forum.
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>Anyone done this?
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>Any ideas?
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>Thanks in Advance,
>Dan

I haven't done it, but if AcuCOBOL can handle it you could implement a VFP Com Server to receive instructions and return data in XML format. See "Visual FoxPro and Advanced COM" in the VFP 9 help. Would that work for you?