Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software
bchacc at san.rr.com
Sat Jan 1 16:36:39 CST 2005
Thanks. Got to try this later today or tomorrow. Stand by for more basic questions. Rocky ----- Original Message ----- From: <JOHNWARDBELL at aol.com> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 9:31 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Reading FoxPro Tables > Rocky > > I did just this a week or 2 back. In ODBC select User DS click Add and > visual fox pro driver. In visual FP setup dialogbox give it a name (say > xxx)and > select free table directory, then find the .DBF file. Ok that lot. then in > Access link to xxx. Select ODBC in "Files of Type" . > > In the Select the Machine Data Source tab and with any luck you will the > xxx ODBC name. > > I did this with a Geller cash register which uses foxpro datafiles > > The dll used is VFPODBS.dll version 6.00.8167.00 > > Hope this helps. > > WardB > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >