G'Day Net Folks
Quote:
>>CAn anyone point me in the right direction for information on
>>reading/writing DBF files in a BASIC application? I need to know how to
>>establish the data type of the DBF file structure. dBase IV
>You may want to try BRIDGIT 3.0. This is a Quick library that plugs
>into Visual BASIC for DOS and provides both dBase and Clipper
>capability. This program works but I find that it takes a lot of
>memory in its operation. Bridgit 3.o is offered by Unelko Corp. in
>Scottsdale, Arizona (602) 991-7272. There are others but this is the one
>I have used.
Or you may care to download Ethan Winers excellent book
"PC Magazine Basic Techniques and Utilities", (at x2ftp.oulu.fi
in the /pub/books/msdos/docs directory as winer.zip 650 Kb) which contains,
in addition to many other goodies, a whole chapter and some example code for
reading and writing dBASE files. I think the examples are for dBASE III, but
the principle should apply to the other dBASE formats, there is also a listing
of file formats somewhere out there (I have lost my reference to it, but it
was posted here not so long ago). Best of all, its free!
Cheers! Ian
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Harrased neuroscientist who can't isolate hippocampal cells :-(
dBASE IV Files <> BSIC