Thanks so much. I'll check into that. (I don't know why I missed your email
until today ...)

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Gilles Kirouac <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>  I assume that you are on a Windows platform.
>
>  Out of curiosity, I did a search on Google and found that
> Quickbooks(QB) databases (.db) are apparently Paradox type databases.
>
>  You can access those using an ODBC driver. My WinXP includes such
> a driver for Paradox. J has four labs on using ODBC with J.
> You should also read the Windows Help on ODBC.
>
>  Besides you could find a library to directly access Paradox dbs,
> but I would not favor that approach initially. Pxlib is such a library
> (http://pxlib.sourceforge.net/). You can find many other equivalents.
> J has three labs on using the related DLL interface.
>
>  My search also revealed that you could simply import and export
> all of your data from QB to Excel (csv file?).
>
>  NB. I am no expert on QB and Paradox; thus everything above is
> subject to be in error.
>
>  ~ Gilles
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Elan <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:27:48 -0700
> Subject: [Jprogramming] J and Quickbooks
>
> > Hi.
> > Does anyone have experience with interfacing J and Quickbooks? I
> > need to write a program that reads and writes data to the Quickbooks
> > POS inveontory database, and I was hoping to be able to do so with J.
> >
> > I would appreciate any pointers to literature/solutions.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Elan
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