>For some reasons I have to make an old 2.6 FoxPro DOS application to import in run-time some data from a VFP 6 table. Unfortunately, I can't do it inversely - from VFP, what isn't a big deal and it can not be even stored in VFP application as a FoxPro 2 table.
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>So, my idea is to write a small VFP application which would only do something like this:
>...
>use Table_VFP6
>copy to Table_FP2 type fox2x
>...
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>Then, building this program to an EXE and running it from my FoxPro 2.6 application just before uisng the new Table_FP2 from Dos. I'm not sure is this the only way or is there some better trick.
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>Thank's, Zlatko.
That's about your only option. And even this won't work if there are VFP specific field types like DATETIME or CURRENCY. You may lose some information in those cases.