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From:
[email protected] (Michael Lipka)
Subject: Re: dBase Interface and Utilities (?)
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 17:30:35 GMT
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[email protected] (Michael B Gordy) writes:
I have large dbf (dBase III) files that I need to cut up according to
a variety of criteria. Could anyone point me to a perl package that can
handle this format?
No, but it's absolutly simple.
Try looking at it with od/hd or cut of a few Kbytes and load it into
emacs with hexl-mode.
You just have to remove a fixed-length header and a variable-length
part. The remaining is a file with fixed-length records.
I have a the opposit of what you want:
a perl-script, that reads a structure-definition and huge, maybe
compressed, files and builds a dbase-III+ file from it, which may be
compressed/gzipped.
Tell me, if you want a copy of it.
Michael
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