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Dim. Pap.

>>>>>Is there Any way to acess cobol data in Vfp...
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>>>>>I'm having a very old application designed in rmc cobol 85... with full source code i.e. cbl, fd, sl files..
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>>>>>Is there any way I can acess it from vfp...
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>>>>>TIA
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>>>>Most COBOL dat files are text files in a fixed width format. You can use a specialized COBOL ODBC driver, but I think you could just use the text file ODBC driver.
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>>>Text odbc is not working, I've already tried that...
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>>>Pls advs. if u r aware of any specialized cobol odbc driver... or can we do something using low level functions in vfp...
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>>I've used a utility long ago that was available on CompuServe. I checked and the makers are still alive. Check http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/access_microsystems/ . You can download BTviewer from there.
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>>José
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>Thanks for your reply...
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>I download btviewer, But now I'm facing 2 new problems...
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>First it is not showing me data as its saving btrieve driver/record manager is missing (I'm not even able to see the sample data..)
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>secondly in the doxs its written that btviewer will only work with ddf files and I don't know how to create these...
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>Pls note that I'm having dat,mst,fd,sl,cbl,cob files but not ddf etc.. (Application is made in rmc cobol 85...)
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>Pls help..