[NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 and WordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Ted Roche
It's probably a long shot, but you folks have a surprising range and depth of Windows troubleshooting experience. Here's the situation: I developed the LAMP app for this client, and they use Windows on their desktop to generate forms and envelopes from the LAMP app. They use an old 32-bit form-gen

Re: [NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 and WordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Alan Bourke
Any merit in considering running the whole stack in question under XP Mode on the non-working machines assuming they are Win 7 Pro or above ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Main

Res: [NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 and WordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
Hi Well i would first do the following; 1. Check if the ODBC works on the machine 2. Check if the Wordperfect program generates the forms. 3. Check this ODBC connection against some other program. 4. Go home. HTH, E. It's probably a long shot, but you folks have a surprising range and depth

Re: [NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 and WordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Malcolm Greene
Ted, Thinking outside the bun: Could you write a simple command line utility to extract (via ODBC) the data you want to merge into a CSV, XLS, or other local file format and have your WordPerfect mail merge routines pull data from these local files? While this may add another level of complexity t

Re: [NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 and WordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Ted Roche
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Alan Bourke wrote: > Any merit in considering running the whole stack in question under XP > Mode on the non-working machines assuming they are Win 7 Pro or above ? They are Win7 Pro. Is "XP Mode" just a compatibility mode switch, or does it involve running all t

Re: [NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 and WordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Ted Roche
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote: > Thinking outside the bun: Could you write a simple command line utility > to extract (via ODBC) the data you want to merge into a CSV, XLS, or > other local file format and have your WordPerfect mail merge routines > pull data from these lo

Re: [NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 and WordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Ted Roche
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Eurico Chagas Filho wrote: > Well i would first do the following; > 1. Check if the ODBC works on the machine Check. Does. > 2. Check if the Wordperfect program generates the forms. Check. Does the forms fine. Redefined the data source. Created a new form and t

Re: [NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 and WordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Alan Bourke
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:58 -0500, "Ted Roche" wrote: > > > They are Win7 Pro. Is "XP Mode" just a compatibility mode switch, or > does it involve running all this stuff in an XP VM under Win7. The > later sounds like a lot of work, but a last resort. > It is effectively a pre-packaged Virtual