Re: Help!: Census/DBase snafu

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. I believe that this claim not only applies to SQLWindows but also to Quest (which, unlike SQLWindows, may be cost-justifiable if the above is the only thing you ever use it for. Assuming that you already have I-NET PC and that SQLRouter is cheap, both of which are fairly optimistic assumptions). graeme -- Disclaimer: The author's opinions are his own, and not necessarily those of Pyramid Technology Ltd. or Pyramid Technology Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -m------- Graeme Sargent Voice: +44 (0)252 373035 ---mmm----- Senior Database Consultant Fax : +44 (0)252 373135 -----mmmmm--- Pyramid Technology Ltd. Telex: Tell who??? -------mmmmmmm- Farnborough, Hants GU14 7PL Email: graeme@pyra.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the technology. The tricky bit is learning how to use it.