>>>>I am looking for an expert in the pyramid claims system which was done 15-20 years ago in clipper?
>>>>Specifically I need to transfer the file notes into VFP memo fields.
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>>>You should be able to open Clipper's tables in VFP (except indexes, unless the guys were using .cdx drivers, which pretty much became popular in early 90s). Just copy them somewhere and try USE.
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>>but there is a memo type file (the manual calles it flexfile) which I cannot get at. Do you know anything about flexfile???
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>No... but I figure some hex dump of the dbf and the flexfile would reveal how does it store the offsets, how does it calculate the blocks etc. Unless the thing is a zipped memo file, which would make it nearly impossible to decipher using low-level file functions.


There is a dbf called form.dbf and a memo file called form.dbv
form.dbf has a field called form(c6) which contains high order ascii characters.
I searched for a known filenote and found it at offset 101100213 .
the form field for this is chr(174)+chr(170)+chr(134)+chr(134)+chr(198)+chr(227)
Another one is at offset 100228035
the form field for this is chr(188)+chr(219)+chr(249)+chr(133)+chr(223)+chr(229)

wierd isn't it


Peter