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Stephen Barncard stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com
Mon Aug 22 13:36:39 EDT 2005


Long long ago I looked at a dBase file and it looked like tab 
delimited text....have you checked in a text editor?

>
>Since you were talking about dBase and Paradox, I assumed you meant
>Windoze...
>
>In that case, the dBase file format is *very* well defined and
>documented. Why not just treat the dbf files as binary files, read
>them into memory, and start stuffing them into arrays and such? Do you
>actually need to keep them in dbf format for use by other programs?
>
>--
>-Mark Wieder



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