No, I haven't. And I sincerely hope it will not be necessary. I am trying to keep this as simple as possible. I am not familiar with the file structures or the content of the files. I need to browse around, find things, and figure out how to get the information out that we require.



>Hey Don;
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>Have you tried to access this data by ODBC
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>HTH
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>Claudio
>>I have a need to access and process data which is in DBASE IV files.
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>>I could purchase DBASE IV software and process the data into a form that I could eventually deal with in Foxpro 7.0.
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>>Or, I could just open the files with Visual Foxpro, it seems to work.
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>>One of the things, I run into is that I get a message saying "Convert MEMO file to Visual Foxpro format ?" and then it goes on to explain that "This can later be reversed with COPY TO ... TYPE FOXPLUS".
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>>I am wondering what I am dealing with here so I say no.
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>>Does anyone have the real scoop on what will happen if I answer YES or NO and what, if any, dangers are lurking here. I do not wish to screw up the format of those DBASE IV files because they are being used every moment of the day with commercial software.
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>>Any help is appreciated.