** Forwarding message from Ernest Dale <ernest.dale18@gmail.com> on Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:28:22 +0000 Thanks to everyone who has taken interest in my problem Having now got Approach to work I am sticking with it. My new problem is how to deal with the influx of help from well-wishers! Ernest On 21 January 2014 04:24, Cliff Scott <cfly@intergate.com> wrote:
** Reply to message from Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> on Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:19:13 +0100Le 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, Slight correction, Approach was written for OS/2 Warp4 as well as Windoz. I am using ver 1.6 on eCS running in VBox on my Mac. As you say it is very intuitive and easy to make queries. I would change over to Base if it was straight forward, but there's no way Base would be anywhere near as easy to use so I'm sticking to eCS. Cliff -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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