Clipper stored "Images"

[whammond]

I'm a Foxpro Developer and I need to extract data from a legacy application that stores images of Invoices and other history in a field labled IMAGE containing ascii characters. These are not memo fields.

I am not familiar with this technique. Is it something built into Clipper? Is it a 3rd Part Tool?
I'd like to know what I need to "read" or convert this into a more standard format (text).

 

[owenp]

is the legacy app written using btrieve? it sounds like they would be using blobs. i would guess you would need some utility to convert blobs to memos. i know there are utilities to convert btrieve to dbf. might work. if it is anything like this, you may find something useful on

http://www.the-oasis.net/ftpmaster.php3?content=ftpdemo.htm

hth
owen

 

[whammond]

Owen -

Thanks,

Turns out this is a Clipper application using a 3rd party tool called Flexfile. Now I either have to buy the tools or find someone who has them and can do the extraction.

 

[GriffMG]

Flexfile comes up on google as beeing available from

http://www.hallogram.com/flexfile/

Regards

Griff
Keep [Smile]ing

 

[circes9]

I have FlexFile lib and use it with Clipper.

If you still need help, contact me at circes9@excite.com

 

[sboomer]

I also have Flexfile 2 and have used it in Clipper 5.2x applications for the past 11 years.
If you need any assistance, you can cntact me at sboomer@mindspring.com