dBaseIII File Structure and Import Problems
Hi all,
1. Can anyone supply, or tell me where to obtain, details of the
dBaseIII file structure?
2. The reason I ask this is due to a wierd problem importing a
dBaseIII file. I have to extend an old system which must remain in
DbaseIII format. I wish to operate using a windows environment
(specifically Delphi). The pillock that originally wrote the software
required a unique identifier for each record. Instead of using a long,
he chose to use a character field of length four. Each character could
be one of the 256 ASCII characters, effectively giving a number to the
base 256. All windows databases which I've tried stubbornly refuse to
maintain the uniqueness - translating many codes to the same ANSI
character, rendering the field no longer unique. As I need this field
to map into other tables, I am completely stuck. I really didn't want
to have to fart around with the dbase file - can anyone suggest a way
around this?
Thanks in anticipation
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