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Dim. Pap.

>can u pls tell me from where I can find that activex...
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>TIA
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>>Sorry, here it is
>>There are several ways to access cobol files. You can use an ODBC Driver like U/SQL, which is a rather expensive package, or when you do not care about the option of using SQL to access the cobol files there is an activeX Control Named COBObjects via which you can access the Cobol Files as if they were Jet Engine Files. Both ways work even if the files reside on a Unix Server !!!!!
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>>Dim. Pap.
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>>>>>>>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..