DBF

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004, Walter Vaughan wrote:
>Linda Gray wrote:
>>Its on a windows xp system, and I need to convert an export word doc to
>>dbf for input into Corel Ventura.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Linda Gray wrote: 
>>>Does anyone know how to create dbf files from filepro
>
>Ah-Ha! VP-DBPublisher recipe. Doing that about 4 times a week right now.
>
>We have fields that import that are wider than 255 characters, so I 
>finally ended up using Access as a bridge.

There's a perl module available from CPAN that handles the old
dBase file formats.  I think it's called xbase.  You should be
able to find it on www.cpan.org.

Bill
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