Re: Help!: Census/DBase snafu

graeme@pyra.co.uk (Graeme Sargent) writes: >In <C69528.8AM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> parson@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Eric Parson) writes: >>I am having some difficulty with a US Census distribution CD, and am looking >>for some help. Census Bureau, if you're not familiar with them, sends >>their information out in a DBase III+ format, in 6-30M files on the >>CD. Now, what I would like is to get the dbase file either into Informix >>(anyone out there engineered this feat?), or just into ASCII. >I believe that Gupta claim that their front-ends talking thru their >SQLRouter/Informix thru I-NET/PC to SE or OnLine can take a .dbf file, >create an equivalent Informix table automatically for you and populate >it. Frank Stetzer at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee just announced a perl routine in the bit.listserv.sas newsgroup to move these files to SAS. Called dbftosas. Works great. Builds an ascii dataset and the input statements to read into SAS. His email address is stetzer@convex.csd.uwm.edu. -- ============================================================================== Tim White University of South Carolina tim@otis.hssc.scarolina.edu Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratory (803)-777-7840 Columbia, S.C. 29208