DOC: Btrieve Driver Does Not Ship with VFP 5.0

ID: Q174969

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0a

SUMMARY

Page 5 of the Visual FoxPro 5.x Installation Guide & Master Index manual lists the ODBC drivers that are supplied with Visual FoxPro. The listing of the Btrieve driver is incorrect. Visual FoxPro does not supply a Btrieve ODBC driver. This driver must be obtained from a third-party supplier.

MORE INFORMATION

Below is the list of ODBC drivers from the Visual FoxPro Installation Guide & Master Index manual:

FoxPro version 2.x database files

Visual FoxPro databases and free tables

Microsoft Access database files

Paradox[ASCII 174] version 3.x and 4.x tables

dBASE III[ASCII 174] and dBASE IV[ASCII 174] files

Btrieve[ASCII 174] tables

SQL Server database files

Microsoft Excel spreadsheets

Fixed-width and delimited text files

Oracle[ASCII 174] 7 database files

The Btrieve driver is not provided and should not be listed.

REFERENCES

Visual FoxPro Installation Guide & Master Index, Page 5

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbdocerr kbVFp FxsetupGeneral
Version : WINDOWS:5.0,5.0a
Platform : WINDOWS
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