markham@phi.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Markham) (06/14/89)
This summer my department is going to be setting up ~11 databases on FoxBASE and we have some students working on a HyperCard interface to these databases. I was wondering if anyone out there has tried this, or knows if this is even possible. Please respond via e-mail. Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you, Andrew W. Markham <markham@sunmail.cs.unc.edu> Undergraduate Assistant Computer Science Department University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) (06/15/89)
If FoxBase/Mac uses strictly dBASE-format DBF (and other) files, accessing the data should not be difficult from within another program. You need the ability to open the data file, seek to a byte offset and read an arbitrary number of bytes in (preferably to a structure). You need an XCMD. The format of a vanilla DBF file is documented in the "Advanced Programmer's Guide" published by Ashton-Tate, among other places. Hope it helps. /alastair/ Disclaimer: Ashton-Tate doesn't speak for me, and I return the favor.