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John;
Many of us are using dBase 4 and 5 tables most of the time. These are what 
you get from Plus if you set the BDE appropriately. You should be able to 
open them in either Plus or dbase 5 for dos.
E.L.

> I realised later that I had left out some important info. The operating 
> system is windows XP pro SP2.
> Dbase plus does work for files created in plus. The program is Dbase 5 for

> dos. I am not running the program on a network at this time.
> I guess changes to code tables and language drivers are necessary but I 
> have not grasped the issues of ODBC or BDE. I am hoping that it will be 
> possible to access the dos files with plus without making the files 
> unacceptable to Dbase 5 for Dos.
> Regards
> John

Geof

I realised later that I had left out some important info. The operating system
is windows XP pro SP2.
Dbase plus does work for files created in plus. The program is Dbase 5 for dos.
I am not running the program on a network at this time.
I guess changes to code tables and language drivers are necessary but I have not
grasped the issues of ODBC or BDE. I am hoping that it will be possible to
access the dos files with plus without making the files unacceptable to Dbase 5
for Dos.

Regards

John

In article <8ZF4kIugIHA.1260@news-server>, john@littleprograms.net 
says...
> Geof
> 
> I realised later that I had left out some important info. The operating
system is windows XP pro SP2.
> Dbase plus does work for files created in plus. The program is Dbase 5 for
dos. I am not running the program on a network at this time.
> I guess changes to code tables and language drivers are necessary but I
have not grasped the issues of ODBC or BDE. I am hoping that it will be possible
to access the dos files with plus without making the files unacceptable to 
Dbase 5 for Dos.
> 
> Regards
> 
> John


John,

Read and writing data to a table does not change it, so you normally do 
not have to worry. It is only when you MODIFY STRUCTURE (add, change or 
remove FIELDs). At that point, if your BDE is set to level 5, the result 
will be a level 5 table which dBASE 5 for DOS can read. The rest of the 
time, you can leave the BDE at level 7 (the current table type) and do 
your work in dBASE PLUS.

-- 
Geoff Wass [dBVIPS]
Montréal, Québec, Canada

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