>>>>No, I don't what those extensions mean. They are not native Clipper files but they could belong to some Clipper add-on that I'm not familiar with.
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>>>Gracias. Any idea of what sort of an extension they (the add-on) would have? We've got the Clipper source code for a re-write, but we're trying to get the data translated.
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>>Have you tried to USE the files in VFP? Is it possible the are bTrieve?
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>>If you have the code in the beginning of the ap, see if it is loading a RDD (Replaceable Database Driver.) If it is, you could write a simple clipper ap to convert from the TLB to DBF files.
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>>BOb
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>I think Bob is pointing in the right direction George.
>In clipper it was possible to write a Database Driver (RDD) so that clipper would work with data and index files in a structure that the RDD would read and write.
Thanks Francisco. I'm going to investigate that now.
George
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