[REBOL] Re: Why I need DBF
From: ryanc:iesco-dms at: 2-Nov-2001 11:42
kind of a chore, but you can use the odbc socket server scheme to access a dbf
file via ODBC.
http://www.sonic.net/~gaia/database/odbc
--Ryan
Boleslav Březovský wrote:
> Hello,
>
> someone asked why I need DBF? So:
> 1. We (me and Cyphre) were writing internet shop engine for someone last
> year. It included to read data from their accounting software and publish
> them on web. The accounting software could save only in its own format, DBF
> and maybe XLS (not sure). So I've started writing DBF reader. But the client
> was paying very bad (actually he never gave us any money) so we stopped
> develoment.
> 2. Friend of mine wrote some statistic software for the swimming contents
> years ago (1992? 1993?) in FoxPro or something like that. All results are
> saved in DBF format. Two or three years are the results available thru web
> but by creating pages he needs to save results in CSV and then use REBOL to
> make HTML. With DBF reader he can contvert results directly.
> 3. I'm updating webpages for someone who's got his data in DBF. He wants me
> to finish it quickly so I prefer to use finished DBF reader than finishing
> my own .
>
> So simply: DBF2HTML.r :)
>
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