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- From: anderson@mayo.edu (Alfred I. Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Visual Basic Dbase toolkit
- Message-ID: <anderson.22.713830139@mayo.edu>
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- Organization: Mayo Foundation
- References: <92224.160050U55870@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:08:59 GMT
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- In article <92224.160050U55870@uicvm.uic.edu> David James Alexander Hanley <U55870@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- >Date: Tuesday, 11 Aug 1992 16:00:50 CDT
- >From: David James Alexander Hanley <U55870@uicvm.uic.edu>
- >Subject: Visual Basic Dbase toolkit
-
- > I'd like to write visual basic programs that will have the ability to
- >minipulate, extract information from, and create DBASE compatible files. Not
- >wanting to do it all myself( I have no clue how dbase files are formatted ),
- >is there a DBASE comptible toolkit that I could get that wild simplify the
- >process for me? Failing that how could I find out about the format? Or could
- >I possibly link in a C toolkit that would do the job for me?
-
- > Thanks. Any help would be appreciated.
-
- >DAVE!
-
-
- I've used the Q&E Libraries from Pioneer Software. Lets you access DBASE
- files as though they were on an SQL server. It does work. Nice thing is
- that you can switch your application from DBASE to SQL servers (Sybase,
- Oracle, OS/2, even text files) and it all "works".
-
- On the down side, the interface to VB is kind of fishy. Takes considerable
- code to really make it a nice interface.
-
- So --- you might want to take a look at this if you don't find anything else.
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