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- CREATE
- A dBase III+ (tm) DBF File Creation Utility
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- Douglas E. Welch
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- (C) December 1987
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- 14539 Albers Street #2
- Van Nuys, CA 91411
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- BIX : DWELCH
- GENIE : DEWELCH
- CIS : 76625,3301
- Glendale Litera (818) 956-6164
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- There are no fancy disclaimers on this program. This program is
- released into the PUBLIC DOMAIN. Please do not sell it or rip it
- off as your own.
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- o Do NOT sell or alter the program in any way.
- o Maintain this copyright notice at all times.
- o Distribute only with all docs and code in a single ARC file.
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- If you feel that this program assists you in your work then
- please feel free to send a $5.00 donation to the address listed
- on the front cover of this document. If a commercial application
- is desired then please contact me at the addresses listed above.
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- I cannot guarantee that this program will work under all
- circumstances but I would like to hear of any bugs or added
- functions that you might want. I cannot be held responsible for
- any damage or los of data caused by this program.
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- Douglas E. Welch
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- CREATE 1.0 Documentation
- (C) Copyright Douglas E. Welch
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- Introduction to Create
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- This CREATE utility was developed using Borland's Turbo Basic
- BASIC Compiler. It was developed to allow programmers to create
- dBase III+ (tm)/ Foxbase+ (tm) DBF files without actually having
- a full version of these programs. This allows the programmers to
- deliver their applications as a runtime application without
- having to provide every database that will be needed. The
- program utilizes a data input file created by the programmer
- which takes up much less space than a series of individual DBF
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- Usage Summary
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- - Enter CREATE at the DOS prompt
- - Enter CREATE <filename> to bypass the Input File : prompt
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- Installation
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- CREATE requires no installation. It should operate correctly on
- most PC's or PC clones.
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- Data File Format
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- The data file format is straight-forward. It contains the
- information usually contained in a DBF file. The data file can
- contain definitions for several DBF files. This would allow all
- the databases for a given application to be contained within one
- text file. There is no required filename for the definition
- file. This allows the programmer to give the definition file a
- name which relates to their application.
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- The MEMO Field is included to allow the proper creation of databases
- which have memo fields. It also creates the .DBT file needed to
- hold the MEMO data.
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- The file should be created with any ASCII word processor or
- Wordstar in the Non-document mode.
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- Name of Database to be created
- Memo Fields Used (Y/N)
- Total Character Count of DBF File
- Number of Fields in DBF File
- Field Name, Field Type, Field Width, Decimal Number
- etc... (continue other definitions here.)
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- Note: All field definition lines should contain 3 commas, even if
- the last item is blank.
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- Example Definition File
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- TEST1.DBF
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- NAME,C,25,
- ADDRESS,C,25,
- CITY,C,20,
- STATE,C,2,
- ZIP,C,10,
- TEST2.DBF
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- FIELD1,C,10,
- FIELD2,N,5,2
- FIELD3,L,1,
- FIELD4,C,25,
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