Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations Mike Lewis on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

How to open DOS version of Paradox file

Status
Not open for further replies.

darwin101

Programmer
Mar 7, 2001
156
US
Hi All.
I was given an old paradox '.db' file and asked to gather the information in it. We think it is from a DOS version of Paradox, will a Windows version of Paradox open this file?

Or any other suggestions you might feel helpfull would be appreciated.

Thanks [sadeyes]
 
Paradox should open it with no problem, but it may prompt you to convert it. Doing this will not cause the loss of data, but it may no longer be compatible with it's original DOS parent. Remember that Paradox is a relational database and there may be linked tables. By looking at the data you should be able to determine which tables are which in the parent/child/lookup relationship. Mac :)

"There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't"

langley_mckelvy@cd4.co.harris.tx.us
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top