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From: lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Lumsdon)
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Subject: dBASE & memo fields question
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Date: 8 Feb 90 20:26:16 GMT
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Reply-To: lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Esther Lumsdon)
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I'm using dBXL by Wordtech Systems.

Is there any method to capture the content of a text file and put it
into a memo field in a dBASE format database? I don't want to type this
stuff by hand. I can arrange the input files so that one file goes to
one database record (2 or 3 char and date fields, and 1 memo field).

Is there any method of dumping the content of a memo field to a file,
other than sending a report to file?

Yes, I probably _would_ be better off using a text database rather than
dBXL, but this is what we have on hand.

Please e-mail replies.  Thanks for any suggesstions.
--------------- My thoughts are my own, not the Navy's ------------------
Esther Lumsdon     lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil    lumsdon%dtrc.arpa
			  David Taylor Research Center, a Navy lab
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