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Re: Visual dBase 7 ODBC drivers

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From: Dan Howard [dBVIPS]
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
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Hi Jay,

You can you OLE automation instead.

Check out Gary White's 
http://www.apptools.com/dbase/automation/

for some HOW documents on the subject.

Jay Hendry wrote:
> 
> We upgraded from Visual dBase 5 to 7 for Y2K compliance.
> 
> Our user wants to mailmerge in Word 97 from existing and updated tables.
> Word reports it cannot open the data source if the table has been
> created/updated by VDB 7. VDB 5 tables are OK..
> 
> From the KB at www.dbase2000.com there is the statement that ODBC
> drivers for VDB 7 don't exist at this time. When will this be addressed?
> 
> What is the solution in the mean time as we don't have the
> time/knowledge to start writing/changing programs to convert data. We
> assume that the script listed in the KB article is a dbase program to
> perform some sort of conversion?
> 
> Thanx
> 
> Jay
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