Conversion from EZ Dental for DOS?

[arkab]

Hello,

I am helping a small dental office as a part time IT guy. They run an out-dated EZ Dental for DOS (http://www.easydental.com/). They did upgrade to newer Windows version few years ago but didn't like it so the main database remains in DOS version.

Long story short - we want to switch to Open Dental as it looks great so far and want to purchase initial support contract from OpenDental.com.

The main question is: can we get help with converting the entire old db to Open Dental?

Thanks!
-Igor

[Jay]

This does work quite well but not all your database fields will be transferred. For instance, Insurance Providers, Fee Schedules etc. will have to be set up. You might have to manually specify who is Active Patient. You would like to keep the old computer and DOS compatible printer very carefully for a couple of years in case you need to look up something. Speak to James in the Open Dental conversion team who is simply amazing at what he does and has done such conversions before.

[brethane]

How can I delete directories inside a parent directory from DOS command line? I want to delete all the directories under a parent directory without deleting the parent through DOS command line. That case i don't know how many directories exist under parent.

[murmsk]

cd/(directory name) will move you to the parent directory as in cd/opendental or cd/ opendental/data
del (file or directory name) will delete as in del opendental.exe

you can also use globals ? or *

del *.* will delete everything
del opendental.?xe will delete anything with matching letters and any letter for the ? as in opendental.kxe or opendental.sxe

[Jay]

http://www.williambharding.com/blog/tec ... cursively/