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From: NU113738@NDSUVM1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Need HELP!!
Message-ID: <1929NU113738@NDSUVM1>
Date: 23 Feb 89 10:02:38 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network, Fargo, ND
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I'm not sure of this being the right subject group but its all I regualarily
check.


Question:   I am trying to write a small program in which the output file
from the program can be directly read in by PC-File: dB.  The format of
the Database files is dBase III format.  I cannot find any mention in the
docs for Pc-file as to what the structure of a dBase record file is.

I have, by hacking, deduced most of the structure of the file but
I have no idea what Byte 1, Byte 9-10, Byte 11-12 (these last two
groups are probably words.) represents.  They are not the file size
or date or, as far as I can tell, the structure.

Does anybody out there know what these bytes represent in a dBase III
format file?  Are they some sort or CRC or Checksum error detection bytes?

I would appreciate any help.  Thanks.


Jeffrey P. Bakke
NU113738@NDSUVM1.BITNET


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