importing from omnis 2

[ajpa]

Does anyone know how to decode an omnis data file (*.df1)? 'Search' reveals half a dozen questions on Omnis, none of them answered!

Tony Ayres

 

[rgbean]

Tony,
After a little "Googling", I found an ODBC driver at

http://www.omnis.net/downloads/tools.html.

(It appears to be free!) This may be your best option of accessing the data - especially if you need to do this more than once.

Rick

 

[ajpa]

Rick

Thanks for this. I've downloaded the file successfully. I had in fact visited this site, but didn't really know what I was looking for.

The documentation says that I need and ODBC Driver Manager V3.0 such as that provided by Microsoft. I can't locate anything on the Microsoft site, and FGoxPro doesn't recognise Omnis in any of its Wizards.

I've obviously got a very steep learning curve ahead of me - I've been sheltered from ODBC and (at the moment) have no idea what to do with it.

But thank you very much for putting me on the right path.

Tony

 

[baltman]

It isn't hard. Check out Import DB from MS Access
faq1251-5002 for some sample code that uses ODBC.

Brian

 

[ajpa]

Thank you, both, for this helpful advice. I'm now able to access the data.

Tony