Re: Help!: Census/DBase snafu

Posted in 1993

Duke of Canterbury — 1 May 93 23:36:19 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

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. Tell the Census Bureau not to be such PC-DOS weenies and tell them to send the data out in a non-proprietary non-application-specific file format. Hmmn.... I wonder what format that could be... An ASCII flat file? Nahh... the EBCDIC folks would get offended :-). But seriously, what a STUPID thing for the Census Bureau to do... mike -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mike bender DOD# 007 415-863-8913 (home) 1991 FJ1200 bender@oobleck.eng.sun.com 415-336-6353 (work) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~