>>>I would like to know if anyone has ever used a Psion Workabout
>>>Hand Held Terminal as a collection tool with VFP6.
>>>If you have i would like to talk to u please.
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>>I've done it about a year ago, with FPD2.6. I had trouble because I didn't have a direct cable connection with the thingy, and had to use the flash ram gadget and format it between receiving and sending the data. It took me three days to write some usable code in OPL, and two hours to connect .dbf to its data.
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>>It's all zipped long ago, but I still have these zips on my disk.
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>This has been working for several years and about two months ago my client contacted me for an upgrade to FPD2.6 !! :) They had updated their accounting package, you see.
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>We did the upgrade and rebuild, but thankfully, the old Psion code, since it was bounced through the text file, still runs unchanged. (Whew, end of story)

Quite a story, though. It's amazing what these thingies can do, though it takes lots of juggling to get it to do right. Refreshes your 8-bit memories :)

Nice thing with the OPL is that it doesn't change much over the years. Hell, the Organizer II is still sold unchanged, and the OPL for the Workabout has just a couple of gimmicks added to its OPL, mainly to serve the better display, and a couple of nice enhancements. I've had to study the manual thoroughly, because it's been 8 years between this one and the previous one (done on Organizer II and mFoxPlus in '89/90). Reading my old code helped a lot (now that's for backup, eh :).

I hope the originator of this thread has got sufficient information now.