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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Need Help With dBase
Message-ID: <42772@cup.portal.com>
Date: 29 May 91 22:49:04 GMT
References: <May.26.18.45.39.1991.21855@galaxy.rutgers.edu>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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"need help in exporting dbase III files to tab delimited form"

In dbase III+ you can export a data file by using the Copy command:

COPY TO <valid file name> DELIMITED 

This will result in 1 line per record.  Each line will end in a CR/LF
pair.  Each field in the record will have a comma delimiting it and
all strings will be surrounded with double quotes.

     COPY TO <valid file name> DELIMITED WITH <ascii char>

changes the delimiter character from double quotes to <ascii char>.  The
field separater character remains the same.  

     COPY TO <valid file name> DELIMITED WITH BLANK

changes both the field separater character and the delimiter character
to the space character.

Using one of these commands you should be able to convert the data file
into a convenient form (perhaps standard 'delimited'), transfer it to 
the Unix box and in emacs do a search and replace to replace field
separaters with tab characters and string delimiters with spaces.

Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com