Hi Mike,

I assume the old stuff was a Clipper system using dBase files.

You could use e.g. IBexpert (http://www.ibexpert.com/) with it's
Interbase Datapump plug in to read the DBF files in and write them to a
Firebird database.

However I doubt that the DBF file structure is the same that you want to
have in you Firebird tables, so you probably will end up writing a small
conversion program reading in the DBF files using a ODBC/ADO connection
and converting/writting it to your Firebird database.

See you
Werner


mbarnhizer wrote:

> Hello all,
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> I have an old DOS program and it's time to upgrade. The program has
> many DBF, NTX, and TMP Files and I think the DBF's are the files with
> the important information. I have been able to export to an Excel
> document, but not sure if this is the best way to go to get the data
> into the GDB database file.
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> My customer bought this program and wants me to install it for him.
> It's a program that will control the inventory for his Auto Parts
> Store. There is the information about the customers and parts that I
> am most intereseted in.
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> The program uses Firebird......
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> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated...............mike
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