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In article <92224.160050U55870@uicvm.uic.edu> David James Alexander Hanley <U55870@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>Date: Tuesday, 11 Aug 1992 16:00:50 CDT
>From: David James Alexander Hanley <U55870@uicvm.uic.edu>
>Subject: Visual Basic Dbase toolkit

>  I'd like to write visual basic programs that will have the ability to
>minipulate, extract information from, and create DBASE compatible files.  Not
>wanting to do it all myself( I have no clue how dbase files are formatted ),
>is there a DBASE comptible toolkit that I could get that wild simplify the
>process for me?  Failing that how could I find out about the format?  Or could
>I possibly link in a C toolkit that would do the job for me?

>  Thanks.  Any help would be appreciated.

>DAVE!


I've used the Q&E Libraries from Pioneer Software.  Lets you access DBASE 
files as though they were on an SQL server.  It does work.  Nice thing is 
that you can switch your application from DBASE to SQL servers (Sybase, 
Oracle, OS/2, even text files) and it all "works".	

On the down side, the interface to VB is kind of fishy.  Takes considerable 
code to really make it a nice interface.	

So --- you might want to take a look at this if you don't find anything else.

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