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Merant I have heard of problems with Merant when tables have names such as Key_customer or xxxx_xxxx . The ODBC drivers from openlink do not suffer this problem though so you could download that from www.innov-8.de/odbc2.htm

The best thing I have found is... Unfortunately I dont know of any good sources on the net but can recommend the book ACCESS 97 Developers Handbook ISBN 0-7821-1941-7 and costs about $59.99 with a CD included.

... In principal I cant see that you should have any problem manipulating your database. You will need to find where the database is stored. Use a file search programme such as the windows explorer find to locate all your .db files. ".db" is a progress database format. When you have located...

Incase your stick stuck In case you havent got any further try this link to my website http://www.innov-8.de/help2.htm . There is an example of using OCX to add the help files into your programmes. Just click on the fields and press F1! If you need further help or an expaination from...

Help file generation programme Search your computer for a file called hcw.exe and a file called hcrtf.exe. These programmes can be used to design your help system.

Openlink ODBC Use this link it has some info about ODBC drivers and trial versions... http://www.innov-8.de/Openlink2.htm

To define the fields datatype To define a fields datatype you can use the data dictionary tool which is found under the tools menu in the procedure editor. Select your table in the fenster and open up the fields list. If you select the field you want and then click on the "field properties"...

Perhaps not the best solution but... You could define your propaths in the regedit of your client machines. It is of course a pain if you want to change your paths later but it just an idea... Using the windows start menu call up the programme regedit and look in the directory...

Where is the code? Hi Linda, I dont see any code... Andy

Hi Linda, In answer to your first query can you send me a sample of the code you are using to call up the dates then maybe I can help you. Number fields can be defined in a number of ways in progress. The Integer data type can be defined as: zzzz9 or as 9999 and other variants of this code...

I think the symbol ? should probably be written like so: "?" Are you trying to replace the fields market with ? in your database so they are just empty i.e " " If so you can use the assign command as follows find table1 where record1 = "?" no-lock no-error. if avail table1 then do...

Connecting to a database Can you be more specific please. How do you want to connect to a database? using ODBC for SQL queries? using the progress procedure editor? I have expierence with a variety of different progress database standard software so if you are trying to connect to a specific...