Wiedemann@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA (07/31/84)
I am currently rewriting a small business package. The original, written in 1977, used BASIC. The files are random access and their structure is known. I can produce an ASCII file format from them in any required format with any desirable delimeters between fields and records. I need to create ".DBF" files from these ASCII files to use in the new software system. Is there a technique or utility that will allow me to create a ".DBF" file from an ASCII file??
ABN.COSCOM-CE@USC-ISID.ARPA (07/31/84)
I am looking at page 19 in part b of the DBase II ver. 2.4 manual. The title of the section is "6.0 interfacing with non-DBase processors". In this section, the use of the append command with the sdf option used will allow CPM 2.2 ASCII files to be appended to a DBase II DBF file. Even delimiited formats such as those in Visicalc type programs are mentioned to be appendable using the delimited option on the append command. I have not tried this but it is in the manual. I hope this helps. Kevin Rappold 1LT GS 1st COSCOM <ABN.COSCOM-CE>@ISID.ARPA
mlsmith@nadc.ARPA (07/31/84)
The approach needed is to submit the ascii files to dBASEII as input. Try a small test file and dBASE structure first. Some environments are friendlier than others to do this. Another more obtuse method is to take a .DBF file and analyze it. Then create the ascii file to be carbon copy of the .DBF file. Test the created file with dBASE for compatibility. mlsmith@NADC.ARPA