>>>>A new customer of ours wants to convert their data from Vertrax's FuelPak software to ours. The other program appears to have been written in Java, and I have no experience in reading, much less converting, Java data files in VFP. Can anyone offer help or suggestions with this?
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>>>>Chris.
>>> What are they using to store data? What Database, sql server, oracle, etc..?
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>>Up until a few minutes ago, I didn't even know *that*. It has tentatively been identified as a Pervasive Btrieve set of files, and I'm in the as-yet-unsuccessful process of trying to find an ODBC driver to read the data.
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>>Chris.
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>I think on this page http://www.pervasive.com/database/Home/Products/PSQLv11.aspx you can download PSQL Server - Windows. Best the 32 bit version
>Looks like a temp license for one month
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>Then you should have PSQL Control Center and documentation
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>( if memory still ok) For ODBC access you will need to make DDF files for the database, Then you can set up an odbc connection

Please tell me that link is not how the company normally does business... First I have to create an account there to download it, then it installs a MobiGenie downloader, loaded with crapware, set off antivirus warnings, and then took me to another webpage to which it wants another account created, which then requires a credit card. **** that.

Chris.