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fox pro dos 2.5 inventory problem

Fadii

Technical User
Nov 26, 2016
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Hi all experts...
I have own a business of medicine distribution and using foxpro dos 2.5 application for sale and purchase since 2004 but now i am facing problem..i have bought a new laptop with windows 10 32 bit and copy my application from old d: drive to new one d: drive problem is that my application has dbf file called mast.dbf which has medicine item names but in application when i purchase any kind of product it dont show the stock invventory then i go to the item registration option and again save the same item and then i purchase it then it shows the stock inventory.
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Too little information to be able to help.

I asusme you don't have source code of this, copied the application directory and data and - at least - it starts and works overall.

You're already lucky with that, anyway, other things might be in other directories or in the Windows registry to make your copy complete. Since stock inventory is missing, it seems you miss another dbf, at least. It would be very unusual for a software to work based on a single dbf table only.
 
Maybe if you reindex some fields (like item code and item name) you can get what you need.

Of course you need to have a FoxPro (for DOS) in your computer, or other software that can do standard DBF reindexing. Using a Visual version of the FoxPro you need to write command to transform the DBF to non VFP type (COPY TO myfile TYPE FOX2X)

 
Hi all experts...
I have own a business of medicine distribution and using foxpro dos 2.5 application for sale and purchase since 2004 but now i am facing problem..i have bought a new laptop with windows 10 32 bit and copy my application from old d: drive to new one d: drive problem is that my application has dbf file called mast.dbf which has medicine item names but in application when i purchase any kind of product it dont show the stock invventory then i go to the item registration option and again save the same item and then i purchase it then it shows the stock inventory.
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I realize that you want to get your existing system working, but if you are at all interested in an inexpensive replacement, also based on VFP (but later), I have one that does what it sounds like you do. You can feel free to contact me if you want support at marketmentoronline.com. I'm not sure if this is a terms of service violation, so if it is, I apologize. I just hate to see people locked into an old system that doesn't work properly on newer hardware.
 
Maybe if you reindex some fields (like item code and item name) you can get what you need.

Of course you need to have a FoxPro (for DOS) in your computer, or other software that can do standard DBF reindexing. Using a Visual version of the FoxPro you need to write command to transform the DBF to non VFP type (COPY TO myfile TYPE FOX2X)

How to reindex
 

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