>>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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>Hi Craig,
>You know FoxPro put out a version for the UNIX opsys. It's character based but it's FoxPro syntax. Maybe something could be written in that. At least it would be somewhat familiar.
>Good luck
>Hugh


I thought about that too, but we still need to get the data from Oracle7 to .dbf. I'm not so sure that can be accomplished in FoxPro. However, I am also quite experienced in C/C++ on Solaris, so perhaps that would be an avenue to pursue. Anyone have any info on how an Oracle database is structured?

-Craig