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- From: u734120@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (John Lamp)
- Subject: Re: text > dbase.dbf
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- Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 05:07:58 GMT
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- Jim_Sollows@mindlink.bc.ca (Jim Sollows) writes:
-
- >Is there any way to take a text file of data and transfer it into a dbase IV
- >DBF file?
-
- APPEND FROM <file name> SDF
-
- used to work fine in dBase III, have never (thankfully) had to use dBase IV
- (or for that matter dBase III recently), but it should be there, it's their
- only import command.
-
- SDF assumes fields in double quotes and separated by commas - the old BASIC
- format.
-
- It is possible to modify that - RTFM.
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