>>Is knowledgeman a program? I am not familiar with the term?
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>It is a RDBMS. see www.mdbs.com
>Originally called Knowledgeman and now called Guru.
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>>When you get the file type that Knowledegeman saves to you can use Data Junction to convert. A bit expensive but worth the price for customer conversions.
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>The file type for the tables has an ".Itb" extension I believe. I'll check out Data Junction to see if it can handle this.
>
>Thanks,

I looked at their site and found:
The newly released 32-bit GURU 7.0 allows users to seamlessly run their KnowledgeMan applications on Windows 95 and Windows NT. GURU 7.0 also includes the GURU ODBC Driver, which provides access to KnowledgeMan, GURU, or Object/1 TBL databases via popular ODBC/SQL tools such as Microsoft Access, Excel, and Crystal Reports. The Driver is available as part of GURU 7.0, or with a prior purchase of GURU 7.0.

Please see the press release for additional product details. For further information please contact mdbs at (765) 463-7200 or (800) 445-mdbs, or e-mail info@mdbs.com.

So it's via an odbc driver that DJ can get your data that you need.

Or VFP can do likewise.

Expert systems are very normalized.

__Stephen