Re: Anybody who can help...

Posted in 1996

Matt Houseman x4408 — Wed, 14 Aug 1996 14:58:28 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Adam Rabinowitz wrote: > > I am an xBase programmer, but I have a series of .DAT files to convert. > The system they belong to runs BTRIEVE v5.00. There is no data > definition file (.ddf) for these databases. Anyone know what format > they're in, or better still, how to convert these to anything other > than .DAT? > > Please email adam.rabinowitz@pixie.co.za can you get the .dat files onto unix and use the 'od' (octal dump) command? i believe that 'od' is part of the MKS toolkit... regards -- ================================================== Matt Houseman Arbor Software mhouseman@arborsoft.com 408.541.4408 "...honest to the point of recklessness, self-centered to the extreme..." ==================================================