>Hi,
>A client of mine would like a file in an SPSS format. I have never heard of this, has anyone else, and if so, what is it?
>
>Cheers,
>Mark
>MAP Business Solutions Inc.

Mark,

SPSS is a statistical package runs on different platforms. If your client are using later MS Windows version (starting version 8, I think, latest is version 10), they would have no problem read ODBC data sources, which can be VFP table, Excel file etc... And the process is relatively painless (no progrmming needed, just a couple of mouse click). The best way for you to deliver a SPSS data file is to use SPSS ODBC driver, it supports sql create and sql inert and I believe it's free and can be downloaded from their web site at : www.spss.com

HTH

Jun