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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: DBASE....
To: yves@CC.McGill.CA
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 14:37:12 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199510252138.RAA04706@maelstrom.cc.mcgill.ca> from "Yves Lepage" at Oct 25, 95 05:38:11 pm
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> >I am in need of reading some dbase files (.dbf)
> >Does anyone have an idea where can I get the
> >structure of a .dbf file ????
> 
> I'd suggest giving Oracle a phone call since Oracle uses
> that naming scheme.
> 
> However, I am having problems fitting this question in the
> freebsd-questions category or the freebsd-hackers categogy.
> 
> Unless you're going to say: "Well, I want to read these files on
> a freebsd machine"... but even then....

There is a company that supports a dBase clone for FreeBSD.  It
was in comp.unix.freebsd.announce recently.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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