Monday or Tuesday we'll be releasing a product called Lh2TXT. It's
a utility to chrun out AREV/OI tables to ascii text files. It
does not use OI in any way. This is DIRECT access.
From there a user can import into Access, dbase, whatever to report
or process otherwise.
It supports batch processing, dictionary conversion, and more. And it's extremely fast (18,000 records of 350 bytes each in 30 seconds on a 233!, approx 7MB of output, 5MB of input). This is a 32-bit utility.
OR, If your really hardcore, and this is NOT a joke or vaporware, we are putting the finishing touches on our 32-bit DLL for use with
32-bit versions of Visual Basic. Now you too can write apps and utilities that will read those OI files directly!
Check it out at www.bizsoftcorp.com even though there's not much about it there. We are hard at work getting it out the door. Be sure to
mail us at [email protected] if you want to be added to the mailing list for new products.
Will the DLL require OpenEngine to be running and if not are you handling locking in any way? This DLL sounds like a nice candidate to be called from an ISAPI extension.
Thanks,
Bryan
No, OI does not need to be running. However, the DLL is strictly read only access. Generally aimed at those users wanting a more flexible solution for extracting data from OI for reporting uses and such.
Bizsoft