Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!chris
From: chris@ziebmef.uucp (Chris Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: xtrieve->dBASE
Keywords: xtrieve, dbase, conversion, file, format
Message-ID: <1989Jul20.225906.15407@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 21 Jul 89 02:59:02 GMT
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Canada
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  I need to convert xtrieve datafiles to dBASE so that their data can be 
run through some dBASE programs.  The dBASE programs are too large and
many and writing them again in xtrieve would be too much effort.
 
  Does anyone out there know how this can be done?  I've become aware of
how to convert a sequential file into dBASE using the APPEND verb but I
don't know how to make xtrieve convert its datafiles into sequential files.
Even information on the file structure of xtrieve would be appreciated since
I'm not averse to writing some converstion routines in Turbo Pascal if n
necessary.