Question about Basic Maker 2018

[AshleyDennison]

Can BM scripts directly access dbf databases, perhaps using ADO or some other methods?

[hen]

yes we can...
a sample with the biblio.dbf shipped with SM

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Set oDAO36 = CreateObject("DAO.DBEngine.36")
Set oDbf = oDAO36.OpenDatabase("C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\<My documents>\SoftMaker",False,False,"dBASE 5.0")
Set oRS = oDbf.OpenRecordset("biblio")
For i = 1 To oRS.RecordCount
	sBuf = sBuf & oRS.Fields(0) & "  " & oRS.Fields(1) & chr(13)
	oRS.MoveNext
Next
Msgbox(sBuf)

<USERNAME> and <My documents> are specific to your pc