why is so complicated????

[cristro]

I HAVE A DATABASE IN DBASE AND I NEED SIMPLY TO COPY THE DATA CONTAINED IN IT TO ANOTHER TABLE IN TOPSPEED.
FIRST I NEEDED THE CLARION, WELL, I HAVE IT.
I EXECUTED THE PROGRAM AND OPEN THE TABLE IN TOPSPEED THAT I NEED TO IMPORT THE DATA INTO. EXCELENT I THINK, NOW ONLY I HAVE TO DO IS TO COPY THE DATA FROM MY OLD DATA BASE FROM THE TOPSPEED! WRONG, THERE IS NOT PASTE BUTTON!OR ONLY WORKS WITH ITS OWN DATA. APPEARS THAT NOW I NEED AN ODBC DRIVER! WHAT IS THAT? Next i found that the driver cost 249 usd !! i am from argentina and in my country that is a lot of money.
Why is so complicated to copy data from one table to another?
It´s a table with columns and files like the other.
I don´t want to create a program. I don´t know how, i am not a programmer i am only a user that needs to import data from one table to another, that simple.
Please help me.

 

[ShankarJ]

Create a dictionary and import the file definitions for the files you want to convert in the new format and the old format. Give them seperate names. There is an option to create a conversion program. If the field names have changed you will have to edit the program to map the fields correctly.

You can also do a conversion by creating a file definition in the dictionary for the new format, copy the oldfile to the newfile name (OLDFILE.tps --> NEWFILE.tps) and when you try to browse it, it will automatically prompt you to convert the data file. This will work only in there are no arrays in the table.