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Importing CLipper Database into VFP
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25/06/1999 09:01:06
 
 
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25/06/1999 07:57:36
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00232397
Message ID:
00233909
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>>>Dont believe everything you read in the docs <g> ...
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>>I can only go by what was asked...
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>>>Clipper appears to be
>>>using a different memo format that foxpro is rejecting. Go figure
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>>Well... then you don't have clipper files. Are these .DBT files, or is there some other extension... by default, clipper uses dBaseIII+ DBT file formats. However, as someone said, there are several Add-On's and RDD's that your clipper programm may be using. FlexFile and VernSx Drivers were very populer in the Clipper Heyday.
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>>BOb
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>Can FlexFiles be imported into VFP and how??
>P

Not that I know of... I think you will have to use the FlexFile utility to convert the memo file back to a standard .DBT... or write a clipper program to open the file useing the FlexFile driver, and copy to useing the standard Clipper Driver.

BOb
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