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Subject: DBASE II Files
Message-ID: <12431@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 19:06:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 19:06:00 1983
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Re:

     1)   Bytes 0 to 7; General Header
               Byte 0, always 2--Purpose unknown

It should be obvious that the 2 is the VERSION number.  It is
DBASE II after all.  Having never used the program I would
conjecture that it will complain quickly if given a renamed
ASCII file as a data base.