newtodbase
Programmer
Need some help here as I'm not exacly sure what I need. Pardon my ignorance.
I have an old program that runs on a DOS machine. I was able to zip the directory structure and copy to my XP - Pro PC. I now unzipped and have 6 program files (*.exe) along with many .dbf files and many .ntx files. The programs run fine but never read any of the existing data - it's as if they don't use the existing datafiles but function correctly. This may be because I don't have DBASE or any other stuff running. Is that necessary to run the programs? Or only for development? I gues I'm looking as to what I need to see the data that I have in the tables.
I have an old program that runs on a DOS machine. I was able to zip the directory structure and copy to my XP - Pro PC. I now unzipped and have 6 program files (*.exe) along with many .dbf files and many .ntx files. The programs run fine but never read any of the existing data - it's as if they don't use the existing datafiles but function correctly. This may be because I don't have DBASE or any other stuff running. Is that necessary to run the programs? Or only for development? I gues I'm looking as to what I need to see the data that I have in the tables.