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Accessing Clipper Tables in VFP
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17/02/2000 17:11:51
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00333679
Message ID:
00333768
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15
If I was to guess, I would there's probably a table alias in use in a .cdx. I've opened Clipper .dbfs before, no prob.

Pf


>Hello All,
>
>I'm trying to write an app which will be querying Clipper tables. Since Clipper tables are .DBF files, I try to open the tables with the "USE" command to see if VFP will treat them as native tables.
>
>When I try the "USE" command, I get five consecutive "Alias 'FIELD' Not Found" error messages, and then the table opens.
>
>Obviously, I can't have the error messages pop up during the app's startup, so my question is this: Does anyone know if you can open and use Clipper tables in VFP without using an ODBC driver?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Ben Holton

(On an infant's shirt): Already smarter than Bush
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