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Creating a remote view to text files
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From
20/08/2001 09:23:27
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
 
To
20/08/2001 09:12:19
Neal Schafer
Application Development Group, Inc.
Bradenton, Florida, United States
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00546154
Message ID:
00546160
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>I am trying to create a remote view to data files for our billing system. I need read only access to real-time data. The data files are on a Unix server. I have a drive mapped to the path where the data files are located. I am working in VFP 6 sp4.
>
>I create a DSN using the Microsoft Text driver to the path, and defined the field names and types. I have checked and the Schema.INI file was created correctly.
>
>Whenever I try to create a remote view to the directory I get a message "No Tables Found"
>
>The files are named filename.dat and contain simple comma delimited values. As these files are part of our billing system, I cannot modify them in any way.
>
>Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Neal Schafer
>Application Development Group, Inc.

Creating a cursor and appending from .dat files would be easier and faster IMHO.
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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