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ServicePack3 - ODBC problems
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21/07/1999 04:05:15
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00236772
Message ID:
00244020
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>Rick,
>
>The problem is the ODBC drivers - a new data access pack appears to be automatically installed with Win98 2nd Edition, VFP 6 Service Pack 3 or Office 2000.
>
>The default behavior for the new Foxpro driver will not open mailmerge files which used the "old" FoxPro Files ODBC driver.
>
>The MS knowledgebase article Q217013 - does provide the *fix* for the problem in the RESOLUTION portion of the article. It is relatively simple - but it will have to be performed on *each* machine that uses the "FoxPro Files" driver.
>
>The MS install for the DataAccessPack 2.1 program should have taken care of this for us - not the case.

The 'RESOLUTION' that is proposed in the article takes care of the DSN entries that you created using old FoxPro ODBC.
However if you used a DSN-Less connection this workaround doesn't work.

Example:
We use MSWORD .DOC pre-configured to mail-merge to determined .DBF tables.
We ship this .DOC documents with our App.
During runtime, the user can open the Document that is directed to a DBF using the DSN-Less connection provided by word in the Mail-Merge feature.

Now I can't do this.
How do I create a .DOC that can be used in any client without creating DSN's on that client ?

If someone has a workaround for this I would appreciate.

TIA
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