Why I need DBF

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 :)

Take a look at a product called Max (I think) from Plugsys (www.plugsys.com). I think it will do exactly what you want as far as DBF->HTML. I think they even have a free version! Jamey. On Friday 02 November 2001 05:16 am, you wrote:

Boleslav - this begs a couple of extra questions... 1> Does the capability access the DBF file include write capability, or is it read-only? 2> Does the DBF read/write code need to be native to REBOL? Or, can you use a DLL? There are DLLs available (do a search at Google) that will allow you to read DBF files in a structured manner. For the most part the available DLLs are not free - most seem to be shareware - $25 - $50. But, if you need it badly enough, and it's really all you need - it might be cheaper than /Command. On the other hand, with REBOL/Command, you could use ODBC to access the DBF files or whatever database you want to. Additionally, Command is quite a bit more flexible in that the routines you write could be applied against a different data source (SQL Server, etc) assuming that the schema of the two databases were similar. - Porter

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 Bøezovský wrote:

> Hello, > someone asked why I need DBF? So: > [rebol-request--rebol--com] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes.