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From: [email protected] (Steve Pacenka)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: dbm or txt to dbf (DBASE3) file converter needed
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 20:17:38 GMT
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[email protected] (NICOLA) wrote:

>I'm looking for some scripts to translate text or dbm files to dbf  Dbase 3
>I should transfer some info in a database format readable by Toolbook , better the old 1.53 version, that is able to read dbase 3 files

XBase files have a very simple structure: header followed by
identically-formatted fixed-length records containing fixed length
fields without delimiters between them.  The index files vary, but if
you sort your DBM or text data you can put out a DBF whose physical
order is the order of records desired, thus eliminating any need for
an index.

XBase file headers are documented in:

  ftp://oak.oakland.edu/oak/SimTel/msdos/dbase/dbasefil.inf.

There is source code in C to read and write unindexed XBase files also
in the SimTel DOS archive.  A translation into Perl should not be
difficult.

-- SP

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