DBF2MySQL
                         Version 1.0 freeware
                  Copyright (C) by Alexander Eltsyn 
                          E-mail: ae@nica.ru
                     WWW: http://www.nica.ru/~ae


  The program is also the subject of following copyrights:

  - Copyright (C) T.c.X. DataKonsult AB
  - Copyright (C) 1998 Justin P. Yunke <yunke@productivity.org>
  - Copyright (C) 1998 Ken Kyler
  - Copyright (C) Bob Silva <bsilva@umesd.k12.or.us>
    
  
                           WHAT IS DBF2MySQL?

     DBF2MySQL is Win32 application to transfer data from FoxPro .DBF
files into MySQL server. To use this program you need an TCP/IP stack
installed and configured.


                            KEY FEATURES:

  * it requires no ODBC or other special clients to access MySQL and .DBF 
    tables;
  * editable "CREATE TABLE" queries;
  * column names substitution/exclusion;
  * "batch" table transfer mode; 
  * .dbf tables preview


                         BATCH TABLE PROCESSING

     If you need to transfer periodically a constant set of .dbf tables, 
this feature is for you. First of all, the "batch script" is to be created.
Then you may give it as a command line argument for DBF2MySQL.exe. 
     Batch script format is described below.


                      BATCH SCRIPT FORMAT DESCRIPTION

     Each line of the batch script contains instruction for one .DBF table. 

Script line format (all parameters may be quoted with `"`): 

 <dbf_file_name>,<mysql_table_name>,<ReCreate>,<delete_rows>,<TargetCP>{,<dbf_field_name>=<mysql_field_name>}

 Where:
  <dbf_file_name>      - file name to transfer data from
  <mysql_table_name>   - table name to transfer data to
  <ReCreate>           - Recreate MySQL table structure. Possible values:
                         0: leave table structure unchanged
                         1: drop table and create new trable structure
                            according to .DBF file.
  <delete_rows>        - empty table before data transfer. Values:
                         0: append .DBF data into table
                         1: delete all existing data before data transfer
  <TargetCP>           - Target code page. Values:
                         0: Current Windows codepage
                         1: Russian KOI-8
                         2: Russian MS-DOS (866)
                         3: OEM
  <dbf_field_name>=<mysql_field_name> - associate DBF field name 
                         with mysql field name. Empty value of
                         <mysql_filed_name> means, that field should 
                         not be transfered


Example of script lines:

".\db\abit.dbf", abit, 1, 1, 0, lock=""
db\stud.dbf, stud, 0, 1, 0, "Field"="Fld"

                                PROBLEMS

1. Problem with tables contains large MEMO or GENERAL data.

   Don't forget to increase value of "max_allowed_packet" variable to 
transfer large BLOB fields. Packet size should be large enough to store
INSERT query with all transfered fields data including BLOB's. 
The default value is 65536 bytes. See MySQL manual for details. 

2. MEMO's codepage conversion.
   There is some difference betwen MEMO and GENERAL datatype transfering:

 .DBF data type     Default MySQL data type     Codepage conversion
   MEMO                 MEDIUMTEXT             As you choose in wizard
   GENERAL              MEDIUMBLOB                     No



                                 HISTORY

1.0 Release:
  - Fixed bug with "Date" data type transfer
  - Fixed bug with MEMO field transfering
  - Memo data is now searched in .fpt in .dbt files
  - Default MySQL column types for MEMO and GENERAL are 
    MEDIUMTEXT and MEDIUMBLOB correspondingly
  - Codepage for GENERAL datatype is not changing
  - Added TargetCP parameter in batch script
  - Some "cosmetic" changes

1.0 a:
  First available implementation