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Out-"Fox"-ing the Fox?

From S.R. Dawson on Tue, 11 Jan 2000

Not sure if you can help me, but I have thousands of records stored in the original Foxbase+, Version 2.0 database, which are all *.dbf files, totally MS-Dos based. Are there any utilities that I could aquire which would be able to read these files and convert to a Windows-based database?

Thank you.
Steve Dawson
Terre Haute, In

I suppose you could install Linux, and write some scripts using dbview (*) convert them to text, copy them back to an MS-DOS partition and then use them in Microsoft's Foxbase!

• ( http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/dbview.html )

Actually I don't do (MS) Windows and it's too early in the year for me to be thinking about April Fool's Day.

Why don't you just ask a nice purveyor of MS Windows software (tens of thousands of apps at your local Egghead --- err, Software Supermarket)?

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Published in The Linux Gazette Issue 50 February 2000

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