Is it possible to open a dbf

[John Fabiani]

Hi,
I'm wondering if there is a module available that will open a dbf (actually
sco foxpro 2.6) file under linux. Hopefully it will be DAPI 2.0 but I'll
accept anything at this point.

John

 

[Paul Rubin]

I'm wondering if there is a module available that will open a dbf (actually
sco foxpro 2.6) file under linux. Hopefully it will be DAPI 2.0 but I'll
accept anything at this point.

Yes, there is, I found such a thing with a minute or so of Google
searching when I needed one a while back. I don't have the url any
more but I'm sure you can find it the same way I did.

 

[John Fabiani]

Yes, there is, I found such a thing with a minute or so of Google
searching when I needed one a while back. I don't have the url any
more but I'm sure you can find it the same way I did.

So far (more than a minute) I have discovered a reader only. So if you have
a URL or a search string it would be very helpful.
TIA
John

 

[Miklós P]

So far (more than a minute) I have discovered a reader only. So if you have
a URL or a search string it would be very helpful.

TIA
John

Yes, "dBase Python" yields only some code for reading dBase ... and lots of
enquires about such a thing...

Miklós

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[Helmut Jarausch]

Yes, "dBase Python" yields only some code for reading dBase ... and lots of
enquires about such a thing...

I've been using
http://www.fiby.at/dbfpy/
without any problems including writing/modifying dbf files.


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Helmut Jarausch

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[Ed Leafe]

I've been using
http://www.fiby.at/dbfpy/
without any problems including writing/modifying dbf files.

The problem, of course, is that there is no single DBF format. The
only product out there that still uses DBFs, Visual FoxPro, supports 3
separate and incompatible formats: 2.x, 3.0, and later. What's more,
the later versions introduced new data types, so even those are not
compatible with older formats.

Because VFP has not fallen off the face of the earth, but instead has
continued to thrive, it has added things such as auto-increment fields
and BLOB support that were never even envisioned by the folks at JPL
when they created Vulcan. As a result, there is no single DBF reader
that can read all DBF files.

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