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Dan Shafer revdan at danshafer.com
Mon Aug 22 13:51:18 EDT 2005


There are a lot of programs around for converting DBF files to other  
formats. A Google search is quite fruitful.


On Aug 22, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote:

> 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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