Programming with dBASE

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Windev

Malcolm Brown

2005-11-23, 7:23 am

I have a client in France who uses the parcels La Poste software written in
Windev. The have a POS/Stock Control application written by me in dBase.
At present they are having to enter customer names and addresses twice
because I cannot find an ODBC driver for the Windev '.FIC' format tables.

Can anyone help please? Windev is not even backward compatible with it's
own files. There is not enough money in the job to justify buying Windev.

Malcolm

Marc VdB

2005-11-23, 11:23 am

> I have a client in France who uses the parcels La Poste software written
in
> Windev. The have a POS/Stock Control application written by me in dBase.
> At present they are having to enter customer names and addresses twice
> because I cannot find an ODBC driver for the Windev '.FIC' format tables.

Sorry, i can't help here, but i would be very interested in a solution too.
Windev seems to be popular in France, i have had a couple of tables in the
FIC format, that i was not able to open :-(

CU, MArc

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Malcolm Brown

2005-11-23, 1:23 pm

Marc VdB wrote:

> Sorry, i can't help here, but i would be very interested in a solution
> too. Windev seems to be popular in France, i have had a couple of tables
> in the FIC format, that i was not able to open :-(
>
> CU, MArc
>

With a great deal of effort I managed to turn the addresses from the earlier
version into an Excel spreadsheet and then to dbf. They are text files so
the dBase text object should read them but this seems an unnecessarily
clumsy way of going about it. I have looked at the Windev trial version
and it looks quite good but just too expensive for this job.

Malcolm

Marc VdB

2005-11-23, 8:23 pm

hi Malcolm,

thanks for the supplemental information

> With a great deal of effort I managed to turn the addresses from the
earlier
> version into an Excel spreadsheet and then to dbf. They are text files so
> the dBase text object should read them but this seems an unnecessarily
> clumsy way of going about it. I have looked at the Windev trial version
> and it looks quite good but just too expensive for this job.

I believe i tried the workaround over Excel, but can't remember. My files
are build with Windev8
and if i understand correctly, there once was an ODBC driver, but it has
been abandonned, and the actual driver only comes with the Windev package.
As you said too expensive to just read some tables ...

Thanks again, if i find something else, i'll let you know.

Marc

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Maurice Abraham

2005-12-01, 7:23 am

Hello,
I did'nt know the La Poste Software writtent in Windew, but I said that
Windev has a native acces to xBase tables. The succes of Pc Soft in France,
and his product Windev, is that he writte in Dos year's "pretty" interface
between user and Dbase....
You can perhaps post this question on
http://forum.pcsoft.fr/group.awp?fo....windev&lang=us

Maurice
France

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> Sorry, i can't help here, but i would be very interested in a solution
> too.
> Windev seems to be popular in France, i have had a couple of tables in the
> FIC format, that i was not able to open :-(
>
> CU, MArc
>
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