[OT] Pervasive / Btrieve Database

Thierry Douez th.douez at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 03:20:10 EDT 2014


Hi Skip,

If you are adventurous, here is a Perl module
to do the job:

http://search.cpan.org/~sgoeldner/BTRIEVE-FileIO-0.05/FileIO.pm

Regards,

Thierry


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2014-07-25 1:30 GMT+02:00 Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <skip at magicgate.com>:
> I realize this is a long shot but many of you out there have been around as
> long as I have in the database world.  Anybody ever extracted data from a
> Pervasive / Btrieve database?
>
> I can't find any program that properly translates it outside of software
> that it was written for which is Windward POS Software
> http://wws5.com/
>
> I need to extract data from this ancient database and am hitting stumbling
> block on top of stumbling block.  I have researched everything online and
> no luck so far.  I really need to find somebody who has done this before to
> understand the complexity of it.  And yes, I have both BTR and DDF files
> available to me.
>
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated!




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