Re: Postgres and Foxbase

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От Jean-Luc Lachance
Тема Re: Postgres and Foxbase
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Msg-id 3CAB5866.2A42049A@nsd.ca
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Ответ на Re: An Invoicing db design, how would you do it  (Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>)
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If I recall correctly, Foxbase uses the same file format as DBase.

You can use dbf2pg to dump the Foxbase database and reload it into
PosgreSQL.



Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:53:28AM -0500, David Siebert wrote:
>
> > There is a guy at my office trying to use Postgres with ODBC and Foxbase. He
> > is having a terrible time with it. He can not eseem to get it to see the
> > data and or views he has created. The ODBC driver seems to work fine with
> > access and excel for him but not Foxbase.
> > I can not help him because I have no need or want to learn "Foxbase" I will
> > stick with Java thank you.
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Foxbase was the predecessor to FoxPro. I doubt anything knows how to
> talk to Foxbase, it's so old. Now, if you really meant to say FoxPro,
> there should be ODBC drivers around for FoxPro. At about version 3 or so
> of FoxPro, Microsoft mangled the file format, so you'll have to know
> whether it's prior to or later than version 3. If FoxPro ODBC drivers
> won't work, try dBase III. The file format is almost identical. However,
> the index and memo files are different.
>
> HTH,
>
> Paul
>
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