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From: eric@wdl1.wdl.fac.com (Eric Kuhnen)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Wanted: C sources for reading DBase files
Message-ID: <310004@wdl1.wdl.fac.com>
Date: 7 Sep 90 14:37:49 GMT
References: <79.26da8e27@wanda.waiariki.ac.nz>
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In article <79.26da8e27@wanda.waiariki.ac.nz>, hendricp@wanda.waiariki.ac.nz (Peter Hendricks) writes:

>A colleague is looking for C routines to access DBase III+ files.  

The dBASE III+ docs give a description of dBASE files.  It is a simple matter
to use some file viewing utility to see the file in hex and trace out the
mapping from the description in the doc.  From there you should be able to
write your own routines to access the files.  I wrote a compression program
that simply stripped out excess blank.  Unfortunately, it's in Pascal and
on 5 1/4 disks.  But you should be able to follow the docs easily enough.

Good luck!

"Q"