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Microsoft Access 2.0 had filters to import and export data from and to DBF files. We used this in WFW 3.11 to convert from DBase to MS-Access and later on SQL S
by orionblastar 5mo ago
Microsoft Access 2.0 had filters to import and export data from and to DBF files. We used this in WFW 3.11 to convert from DBase to MS-Access and later on SQL Server.
There were some Turbo C and Turbo Pascal source code that read DBF files, but hardly anyone used them. Most stored data is in text files that can be read by any application.
- boshomi 5mo agoMS Access can use DBF files almost as if they were standard Access tables. This was particularly useful when working with ESRI Shapefiles, as it allowed the DBF files to be edited in Access and the changes to be viewed directly in ArcGIS. When editing maps, Access was often more convenient than the ESRI Editor.
- pjmlp 5mo agoI have one of such Turbo Pascal libraries for dBase access, bought via ads on the Portuguese programmer's magazine at the time, Spooler.
- keernan 5mo agoI started with dBase but quickly moved to foxbase which was much faster. Foxbase was renamed FoxPro when DOS moved to Windows and soon thereafter Microsoft purchased FoxPro. Since FoxPro was a dBase derivative, there were high quality conversion interfaces between Access and FoxPro (and all dBase dialects). Aside: I was such a fan of Foxbase that the very day Microsoft's acquisition was announced (circa ~1992), I invested $10,000 in Microsoft. I sold maybe 10 years later for $100,000. Stupid Stupid Stupid.