dBase lib

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Dave LeYanna <dleyanna at rtl.org> wrote:
> I know that is one way to do it but I wanted native
> access (direct file
> access) because of difficulties in setting up ODBC
> on client desktops and
> the problems with mixed OS environments.
> 
> Thanks for your help. This may be the way that I
> have to go...
> 
> Dave 
> 

Hi Dave,

Though the file format itself is not overly
complicated and well documented online, the hard part
is creating the actual database engine that would
parse your SQL commands and spit out the result of
your SELECT.
The ODBC driver takes care of all that ; and with
Valentina, MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases
natively supported, hardly anyone will see the need to
write a native driver for dBase files -- now if this
had been 8 years ago...

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)


		
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