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Excel to Foxpro 2.6 1
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Gary Sutherland
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Yes although your options are limited by the versions of Excel supported. Lookup APPEND FROM in the manual. You may find it easier to save from Excel as CSV and import that.
Tore Bleken
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Why don't you take a look at the calendar? It's 2025... DOS is dead, and has been dead for more than 30 years. Upgrade the software to VFP9 before it's too late.
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Technology comes at a price. There are a lot of people who cannot invest again and again.
Foxpro for Dos or for that matter Foxpro itself maybe a dead house but the software which we are using is very much stable and functioning. Building a similar software with similar features will cost a bomb in today's time. Plus implementing and training will be an additional expense, which we cannot afford.
Developing a software completely new wont bring any extra revenue to the organisation which uses this software built with this dead house.
Sometimes upgrades are imposed on us , even when we do not need them. Sometimes upgrades come at a cost which many cannot afford.
Had foxpro been a dead horse , developers would have not considered still developing freedos, dosbox and similar softwares.
Lastly, no one asked your opinion and mind your own business if you do not have a solution.
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Adding further to your comment. Even VFP9 is a dead horse.
Tore Bleken
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No it's not dead, but it's abandoned by its parents. It will continue to work for ages.
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you just said dead and now saying abandoned by its parents. I guess you are crazy. Stop commenting useless and get a purpose in life.
Maybe he cannot upgrade.
Or maybe why fix that which is not broken?
I still use FoxPro 2.6b for the Mac because the ONLY VFP for the Mac is VFP 3.0 WHICH IS TOO BUGGY TO USE.
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See the software that we use in foxpro even after 30 years does the same kind of work for us. What is lacks in modern features like auto email generation , creating dynamic pdf reports. Now previously it was not able to do usb printing and laser printing too. All these we have now over come.
Now thanks to softwares like Dosbox x we are able to run it on windows 11 machines as well.
Now upgrading such a software will cost over 50000 dollars , as quoted by many to ous company. They will make the same software with enhanced features . Most of them most of them offered to make the solution web based which we do not want. Plus investing this amount really wont help our efficiency or profitability as well. Hence the management is against such an upgradation.
Plus upgrading to VFP also makes on sense at this point considering it is also a dead horse. Rather keep if alive in foxpro 2.6 only.
I am 45 years old now. Except to work it 60 years if life permits. Beyond that the next gen of owners of organization can decide if the business survives.
Till then i will keep on finding and figuring out indigenous ways to solve problems. Like 10 years back we figured out a way to generate MYSQL file which we use to export the data on our website.