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Article #1451Re: Urgent!!! DBase III in C++ !!! HELP
From: Michel T. Talbot
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 00:00
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knubbel@poet.shnet.org (The Reincarnator) wrote: >*PLEASE* please help me! >I got to write a program for a .DBF (DBase 3) file in Borland C. >My problem is, that I do not know how .DBF files are structured. >If you have a *structure sheet* for a DBase file Try Appendix C of Ashton-Tates voluminous original 1986 dBase III Plus manual (Vol.1-Learning and Using dBase III Plus) on pages UC-1 to UC-4. From the horse's mouth, it show the .dbf file header structure, field descriptor bytes, data type codes and finally the structure of .dbt files. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel T. Talbot B.Sc. Magna Cum laude, Computer Sci., U. of Ottawa mtalbot@achilles.net "...to seek, to strive, to find and not to yield" http://www.achilles.net/~mtalbot
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