payasam Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 I keep nearly all my data in dBASE III+ format (.DBF and .DBT files). In Windows/DOS, I use FoxPlus to manipulate these files. While I can and do view them in StarOffice and OpenOffice in both Windows and Linux, making forms and queries to suit my purposes, there are some things I cannot do. First, the files cannot be *physically* sorted: they can only be viewed in sorted form. Second, the .DBT (memo) files get bloated after a while and need to have empty or junk space removed. I haven't yet been able to find a Linux program that will do these things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LearningLinux Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 There are at least 3 open source projects available that will let you write apps compatible with the old DOS CA-Clipper that will let you do anything you want to do with DBF/DBT files. Here are links to the 3 projects: http://www.itk.ru/ http://www.harbour-project.org/ http://www.xharbour.org Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted March 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 Thanks, LL, I'll look at them; though I've never worked in Clipper and only wanted something which would let me manage flat-file data bases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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