SSteinberg.SoftArts@mit-multics@sri-unix.UUCP (10/05/83)
Re: 1) Bytes 0 to 7; General Header Byte 0, always 2--Purpose unknown It should be obvious that the 2 is the VERSION number. It is DBASE II after all. Having never used the program I would conjecture that it will complain quickly if given a renamed ASCII file as a data base.