Viewing Foxpro Files?

[OldRod]

My partner and I work on a project that has ~750 FoxPro files, mostly database files (.dbf), but some reports and forms as well. Is there a way to view the differences in these files in BC's file viewer?

For instance, my partner may add or change records in a support .dbf on his computer and I want to view/merge those changes in mine using BC.

Program files (*.prg) aren't a problem as they are text, so the file viewer works for them, but .dbf files aren't text.

Thanks :)

[Chris]

File Viewer can only compare text files.
If there is a way to convert the .dbf files to text, you can setup a rule that will use an external converter under the Conversion tab in the settings for the rule.

We also have a hex viewer plugin for comparing binary files. This might work to compare the two files. You can download the plugin from:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php?c=v2plugins
Please note that plugins only work with a registered version of BC.

[Chris]

One more idea.
If you can export the database file as a comma separated value file, you can compare the data using our dataviewer plugin, also available on the plugins page.

[OldRod]

Thanks, Chris. I'll give the .csv route a try.