[libreoffice-users] Re: Query

Le 19/01/2014 16:02, Tom Davies a écrit :

Tom,

> Can Base directly connect to a Lotus Approach database and use it as
> the back-end?

No. Never has and probably never will.

> @Ernest, Have you still got access to the old Windows and thus the
> Lotus Approach directly or was this an upgrade (or a machine exchange
> or some sort)?  I take it you exported the data as a ".csv" file and
> that is what is looking like a flat spreadsheet?

Lotus Approach saves its databases as an APR file extension, but the
actual data is stored as a group of DBF tables. Any binary (e.g. image)
data or extended character data (Memo fields, etc) are stored in a
separate DBT file which is referenced in some way by the APR file and
thus appears in the DBF file that contains the binary field.


It was/is for its time a brilliant piece of kit that held its own with
Access and FMPro. It had an accessible UI and form builder, had a fairly
competent SQL parser, and could even be scripted with Lotus Smartscript.
In fact, from the user perspective, it was "intuitive", everything which
LO Base is not. I fully understand why people have stuck with it.
However, it was essentially, single OS (well it did run on OS/2 as well
for a while in Windows compatibility mode), as the software was provided
for the Windows platform only.


Alex



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