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Is it safe to access Foxpro 2.6 table from Visual Foxpr
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26/01/2000 11:18:16
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
FoxPro 2.x
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00322818
Message ID:
00322864
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>I have written some code in VFP to read/write access some tables in from another app written in 2.6.
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>I am doing this by accessing the tables via updatable view in VFP.
>I open the 2.6 tables outside the DBC then run the queries to generate the views inside the DBC.
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>This seem to be working fine so long as I make sure my view does not have the same name as the 2.6 table I am accessing. (Doing this causes the fault 'PROGRAM LINE TOO LONG')
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>The view updates the table just fine and 2.6 seems quite happy.
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>So far so good but I just have this nagging feeling........

I do this all the time with Web Connection running alongside legacy FP 2.6 apps. Keep CPDIALOG set OFF and *never* try to invoke any maintenance routines on the data in VFP.

-- Randy
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