DOC: Btrieve Driver Does Not Ship with VFP 5.0 (174969)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 5.0a
This article was previously published under Q174969

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
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:8/10/1999
Keywords:kbdocerr KB174969
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