>Here I'd heard so much about this Universal Thread. OOOhhhh. "You can get all the answers you want". "These guys really know what they're talking about". That's all I've heard for ages. So I post one simple question about using 16 Bit Drivers in VFP 5.0 environment and you all run away. Not one reply! So I'll try again.
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>We are trying to access 16-Bit SQLBase data that is in a seperate payroll application (not ours) from our application. We got the drivers we need but because our app is in VFP5.0 it does not let us see the 16-Bit drivers. We then tried creating the link using VFP3.0 and shelling to it from VFP5.0 except Microsoft jam that too by giving the error message "Compiled in a previous version blah, blah, blah".
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>Has anyone got any work around ideas for running 16 Bit SQLBase Drivers from VFP 5.0??

Geeze, all we can do is try. Besides the expertise in this forum is primarily VFP and not necessarily ODBC.

I do not think this is strictly a VFP issue. If you go into the ODBC Administrator, can you see those drivers? If so, can you create a DSN using those drivers? Then in VFP, can you create a connection in the DBC using that DSN? If so, then you can create remote views of the SQLBase data.