>>>>OK Here goes:
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>>>>Here at the university, the people who keep the inventory used to use a VAX-based query program from their PCs. We are in the process of upgrading this to a FoxPro based system, because the University is junking the VAX. Here's the problem:
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>>>>The raw data for this query comes in from the state and is stored on a unix box in an Oracle7 format (as far as I know)
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>>>>The data file for the FP app is stored on a PC Server running Netware.
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>>>>In order to stop our reliance on someone converting this data file and sending it here (we've gotten poor, late, and sometimes even no data from them), we'd like to find some sort of software package which could get this data from the Unix machine, format it for our FoxPro app, and store it on the NetWare server. We've downloaded Personal Oracle7 for '95, but it is cumbersome, confusing, and no one here knows how to work it right. Does anyone have any suggestions for a solution?
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>>>Craig
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>>>I ain't no expert with UNIX systems but for everyones benifet what version of Fox are you using & what platform? DOS, WIN 3.1, Win95, NT?
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>>>Tom
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>>The Fox app is FP for windows 2.6 and we're running '95 here.
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>you do know that 2.6 and 95 don't play well together, don't you?

Yes. But after having some experience upgrading 2.6 apps to 3.0 we decided that the headache of the 2.6/win '95 combination is, for now, easier to deal with than upgrading to VFP. Besides, the people here already hate the app and any little change to it will probably freak them out! :(

Craig