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I am designing a program that converts scanned input to an ASCII Data
Interchange Format (DIF) file. The DIF file I create can be read by any
number of software packages from 1-2-3 to mainframe FOCUS (a database
product). However when our analyst tries to import the generated DIF
file into DBase IV it never quite reads it correctly (usually drops the
first tuple). The DBase people say that the problem could be that I
generated an older type of DIF file and did not use the latest version
of specs for DIF. The specs I used came from the first edition of the
book "File Formats for Popular PC Software" (circa 1985?). 

Question: Is there a later version of the DIF specs and if so are they
downward compatible?
 If there is a later version of the DIF specs could someone please EMail
them to me?

Thank you for your help in this matter.

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