First of all, a very big "thank you" to all who have contributed ideas and suggestions towards trying to solve this question. You have all been immensely encouraging.
Next, an apology for not responding more quickly. I have been trying to answer via my browser window instead of by email. Duh. Taking up particular points made by individuals: Alan Bourke ----------- "create virtual machines running XP with Virtual PC or VirtualBox" Point taken: I will investigate this once I have something healthy to install therein. (Side issue: there is the question of XP's imminent demise and consequent security problems thereafter as I understand that virtual environments will not isolate the program from plague.) "FoxPro. 2.6 would work" Not being a developer, my problem is not knowing how to convert one version to the other. Kurt ---- "might be able to help out" Very kind of you. Thanks very much. Jean Maurice ------------ "did you write ProAction?" I wish! No, I am a civilian. And, no, I do not have the source files as, according to the user manual, I have only the runtime files (FOXPRORT.EXE and FOXPRORT.OVL, I guess). Jean Maurice and Kurt --------------------- You refer to IDX and CDX files. These do not appear in the program or data directories. There are many NDX files, a point picked up by Dan Covill and others. Kurt ---- "the developer of ProAction . never bothered to upgrade it" To be fair to them, they did produce another version, but I was too stingy and short-sighted to pay for the data conversion required as things were fine. Some years later, however, the company changed direction and are now a successful training company dealing in enterprise level software. Rafael Copquin -------------- "send me the tables and their indexes . I could try to recover them" That is very, very kind of you. Would it be just the DBF and NDX files that you would need? I could send you a text file listing of *all* the files in the program and data directories in advance if that would help to give you an overview. If so, would I send this directly to you or post it here? I am not sure of the protocol in these matters. After recovery, would it be a matter of just slotting the files back into the directories? (Not knowing much about relational databases, I am guessing that the relationship structure between tables would still be OK?) Kind regards to all Brian _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/FB34D3042F3E4131BA170944AF27862E@acer2013 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
