Converting Microsoft Works databases.... *shudder*

Michael B. Trausch mike$#at^&nospam!%trauschus
Fri Nov 3 21:20:56 EST 2006


Larry Bates wrote:
>
> MS ships ODBC interface to xBase databases in all versions of Windows.
> You don't need Access.  Just create DSN to your exported dBase database
> and MS Word, MS Excel, and any other ODBC aware product can read the
> data.  If the data size is large or if you want to move to server, you
> can do that later.
> 

Oh!  I hadn't realized that Win32 ODBC handled connections to dBase
files.  Learn something new every day... :-)  Thanks!

(I suppose that is something that I would probably know, if I used
Windows...)

	-- Mike



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