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- From: an662@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Leach)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Clipper and FlexFile
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 23:40:50 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- Brian,
- FlexFile is an add-on for Clipper that uses a different
- format for the .DBV than Clipper uses for .DBTs. dBase, FoxPro,
- and 'normal' Clipper programs can't access this file. FlexFile
- keeps a Character field in the database with a pointer into the
- .DBV file. As far as I know, there is no version for dBase
- or FoxPro. You should still be able to access the .DBF from dBase
- or whatever, but not the memos. FlexFile uses an extremely
- efficient method for storing its data. It uses very small block
- sizes (instead of Clipper's 512 bytes) and keeps a header of
- some sort that lists unused blocks (created as data is modified)
- so they can be reused. You might want to contact Ganahl Software
- and see if they do have a version for dBase. The only other
- alternative would be to have a custom program written that
- will let you browse the .DBF/.DBV pair.
-
- Mike Leach
- Programmer/Analyst
- University of Cincinnati
- leachmj@uc.edu
- leacmj@morekypr.bitnet
- an662@cleveland.freenet.edu
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