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- From: moursand@lonestar.utsa.edu (Bowen M. Moursund)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Reading dBase III+ Files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.182316.2212@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 18:23:16 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ringer.1992Nov9.182316.2212
- References: <1992Nov4.175300.2787@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
- Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
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- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- >I am trying to export data from a dBase III+ file into a text file or into
- >my own data file. The export feature only makes a "PFS file." If I can find
- >any information on how to port the data to a text file or getting the
- >variable record structure so I can read it in Pascal or C data structure
- >format.
-
- Howsabout:
-
- use mydbf
- copy to mydbf.sdf type sdf
-
- This'll get you an ASCII file in System Data Format: fixed length fields with
- each record terminated with a CRLF.
-
- - Bowen -
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