Converting files from DBF into Filepro

[Tom Pancero]

Greetings all.

Red Hat 8  --  Filepro 4.8

I regularly receive data files from customers that are used in the
preparation of commercial bulk mail.

I am interested in a better approach to converting them to Filepro
than the current one;

Use 'dd' to strip off the header and create a temporary file for the
remaining data which is in a fixed field length format.

Next I use a Filepro file configured as a 'Non Filepro' key that reads
the data elements and uses an automatic processing table to create a
'Maillist' record that we ultimatly mail from.

There is no provision for dealing with any changes in the makeup
of the DBF file so each time I get one of these I really need to take
a closer than normal look at the data.

Anyone have a better approach?

cheers