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Subject: Re: accessing dbf (dbase III/IV/V) files
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> there doesn't appear to be any real dbase interface utilities out there
> either for perl or c/c++.
> 
> what do most people do here?  convert to MySQL? . . .
>  . . . 'cause I just want to pull data out & maintaining two dbm seems
> a little excessive.
> 
> TIA
> 
> fergus.

Hi fergus,

please try the following ports:

/usr/ports/databases/dbview        - let you read DBase III
/usr/ports/databases/p5-DBD-XBase  - Access DBase via DBI

Hope that helps

Marc



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