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Joanna �wik�a wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am not a COBOL programmer, and I don't know much about this language :-)
> but there is a big problem with it. I'm working on a program in C, which has
> to process data contained in COBOL indexed files. I have .DAT and .IDX file,
> and file specification, i.e.
> 5 FIELD1
> 10 FIELD11    9(2)
> 10 FIELD12    9(2)
> etc.
> Now my question: how to translate DAT files into text files? Is this a valid
> DAT specification? Are there any non-commercials translators? 

I don't know about FREE translators, but ParseRat (http://www.parserat.com/) is only 
$49.95. It will quite happily translate your DAT files (look in the help file for 
"binary files").  

As others have noted, the IDX files are indices - normally when you move a database 
table from one system to another you need to re-generate the indices in the new system.

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