Pascal to foxpro

[newtofoxpro]

I have got the software (DOS Based) with data and said that it was developed in pascal and who has developed is out of business. The same features I wish to develop in foxpro for windows but my problem is how to transfer data from pascal to dbf. I have found the files extension like .DAT, .DBM, .NDX

Please help me.

Regards.

 

[TamarGranor]

First, I can't recommend developing any new applications with FoxPro 2.6 for Windows. It's more than 10 years out-of-date.

As for transferring your data, you'll have to figure out how it's stored. You might try opening the files with a text editor or a hex editor to see whether you can figure out what the format is. You might also ask in some Pascal forums if there are any common data storage formats for Pascal apps. (If you know what version it was developed with, even better--find a forum supporting that product.)

Tamar

 

[JRB-Bldr]

When 'converting' some application there are 2 primary parts.

1. The application code/functionality
2. The data

If you are looking to convert the application code itself to FP/VFP, there are no easy methods of making this occur. And don't go to Foxpro - as Tamar suggests above the old versions are obsolete and getting help is getting to be a problem in that most of us have been away from FP2.6 for over 10 years. Go to Visual Foxpro 9.

If you are looking to convert the data, Tamar has again given you the best suggestion. The other way would be to use Low Level operations to open the file and extract the data as character strings and then write it out again as needed.

Good Luck
JRB-Bldr


If you are

 

[cricket]

And work only on copies of your data