I dbase driver might work.
Good luck!
:den
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seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more
thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and
envious of another's.
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On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Kevin Parker wrote:
>
> Can someone help please - if this is too OT then my apologies and please
> contact me off list.
>
> Very quick background - have a dear friend who I'm trying to help out who as
> a single mum and to her credit, bought into a Video Rental shop about a 2
> years ago - works 7 days a week to make a good living and send her lad to a
> good school. The software to run the shop came with the store buy. Its
> running in Win 2K and is a DOS based, compiled application.
>
> We started digging around it a while ago when we were trying to work out how
> to generate invoices to video defaulters (She's owed about $8K in defaults
> which is a bit sad). I've dumped the whole system to a DVD so I can have a
> play around.
>
> However, now there is a sense of urgency - we just found out that the app
> does not recognise dates beyond 2009 (Y2.009K :-) The calendar goes from
> 2009 to 1910. I've been unable to locate the original vendor of the
> software.
>
> The system is full of files of the format *.001, *.002 and *.003 along with
> exe's and PJX files. I did a HEX and binary dump of the EXE files and can
> see references to CLIPPER in there. I checked the File Extensions web site
> and PJX files are associated with MS Fox Pro projects.
>
> Does any of this ring a bell with anyone.
>
> TIA
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