>Hi John,
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>I read your article 'ADO jumpstart ...' and was pretty hyped about using ADO rather than ODBC for accessing our Oracle 8.0 data server.
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>However, I have run into a little problem, and I would appreciate any help you could provide.
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>I am using the function RSToCursor() to convert the retrieved data, but none of the numeric fields convert properly. All character and date fields are parsed properly. All numeric fields have one entry as their value, 'gen'.
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>I can write my own conversion routine in VFP, or VC++, if there is a problem, but I just wondered if there may be some known issue regarding using this conversion routine, and a workaround.
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>TIA
>
>Sanjay

There is source code that does this at Ken Levy's site www.classx.com. I believe the numeric conversion was a problem here too, unless an update has been posted. But you have the source code.