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Re: routines to access database files from C

#3848
From: Michael P. Deignan
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 1990 21:56
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melnik@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ofer Melnik) writes:

>Does anyone know of any routines/libraries which I can use to access, modify,
>and querry information from different database files (Dbase, paradox and
>non-standard files)?? I want to write an application in C and DON'T 
>want to write my own B+tree/Index Sequential 
>implementation. Source would be preferable since I might
>want to be able to sort files in which the language is written from right
>to left (Hebrew ).

Check out the Soft C Library. It will read/write dBase files and indexes.
Source is available to registered users. SOFTC20.ZIP is the latest version
I've seen, if you can't get it on a BBS near you, I've got it at the 
below number.

MD
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