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From: jrp@rducky.UUCP (JIM PICKERING)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: C language functions library for dbase iii files.
Message-ID: <411@rducky.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 89 06:02:18 GMT
References: <1520@dsacg3.UUCP> <250@cs.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: jrp@rducky.UUCP (JIM PICKERING)
Organization: Technical Solutions, Arroyo Grande, CA
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In article <250@cs.columbia.edu> benderly@cs.columbia.edu (Dan Benderly) writes:
|In article <1520@dsacg3.UUCP| nfs1165@dsacg3.UUCP ( James L Strickland ) writes:
||
||    Please provide a review of any products of the subject kind that
||you are familiar with.
||
||			Many Thanks,
||			
||			James S.
|
|There is a package called WKS Library from Raima Software which provides
|acess to dBase and Lotus WK1 files from C and Quick-Basic.  I have used it only
|for the WK1 libraray, from C, and have been happy with it.  They also provide
|the source with the product, which makes it easy to modify (which I had to do).
|
|Dan
|
|benderly@cs.columbia.edu

I too have used the WKS library for both dBase and Lotus files.  I have
used them only with MS C, though there is support for Turbo C and Lattice.
I have found no fault with either library, though I had to do some
extensive modifications to make it do what I wanted it to do.  


jim

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