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- Short: Borland Ashton-Tate Dbase file layout and Amiga ODBC proposal.
- Author: dlcc@iol.ie
- Uploader: dlcc@iol.ie
- Type: docs/misc
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- Why is it that I can't find a single Database application for the Amiga which will read dBaseIV
- files. Here's my proposal. Kill two birds with the one stone. Produce a "database.datatype"
- class and then produce datatypes which can read databases. We would then be in the position of P.C. owners
- who can open various databases through O.D.B.C. (Open DataBase Connectivity). So ,for example, an
- Xbase datatype could open any dbase file. Existing database applications would only need to be
- able to use datatypes to read many new filetypes.
-
- Included in this archive is some documents I've found on the dBase/Xbase file format which may
- help somebody as I've been unable to find this information anywhere on Aminet.
-
- Note some of the documents contain slightly different information and there is probably a lot of
- overlap but I have included them all for the sake of completeness.
-
- Michael O'Reilly 30/07/97.
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 18896 3630 80.7% 09-May-97 13:31:06 BORLAND.TXT
- 6656 2007 69.8% 09-May-97 13:31:24 DBASE.TXT
- 3891 974 74.9% 09-May-97 13:21:14 DBASEFIL.INF
- 2067 1037 49.8% 09-May-97 13:28:14 DBF.TXT
- 8299 3464 58.2% 12-May-97 11:18:24 README_B.TXT
- 49727 15250 69.3% 09-May-97 13:29:32 XBASEFMT.TXT
- 1037 579 44.1% 29-Jul-97 22:21:32 AmiODBC.txt
- -------- ------- ----- --------- --------
- 90573 26941 70.2% 08-Aug-97 19:28:22 7 files
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