Hi :) ignore, maybe have a really quick skim through and then delete in bulk. I don't think anyone expects individual responses! Regards from Tom :)
On 21 January 2014 14:00, Cliff Scott <c...@intergate.com> wrote: > ** Forwarding message from Ernest Dale <ernest.dal...@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 <c...@intergate.com> wrote: > >> ** Reply to message from Alex Thurgood <alex.thurg...@gmail.com> on Mon, >> 20 >> Jan 2014 09:19:13 +0100 >> >> > 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, >> >> 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+unsubscr...@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 >> >> > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
