Short:    Borland Ashton-Tate Dbase file layout and Amiga ODBC proposal.
Author:   dlcc@iol.ie
Uploader: dlcc@iol.ie
Type:     docs/misc

Why is it that I can't find a single Database application for the Amiga which will read dBaseIV
files.  Here's my proposal.  Kill two birds with the one stone. Produce a "database.datatype"
class and then produce datatypes which can read databases. We would then be in the position of P.C. owners
who can open various databases through O.D.B.C. (Open DataBase Connectivity). So ,for example, an
Xbase datatype could open any dbase file. Existing database applications would only need to be
able to use datatypes to read many new filetypes.

Included in this archive is some documents I've found on the dBase/Xbase file format which may
help somebody as I've been unable to find this information anywhere on Aminet.

Note some of the documents contain slightly different information and there is probably a lot of
overlap but I have included them all for the sake of completeness.

Michael O'Reilly 30/07/97.


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Original  Packed Ratio    Date     Time    Name
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   18896    3630 80.7% 09-May-97 13:31:06  BORLAND.TXT
    6656    2007 69.8% 09-May-97 13:31:24  DBASE.TXT
    3891     974 74.9% 09-May-97 13:21:14  DBASEFIL.INF
    2067    1037 49.8% 09-May-97 13:28:14  DBF.TXT
    8299    3464 58.2% 12-May-97 11:18:24  README_B.TXT
   49727   15250 69.3% 09-May-97 13:29:32  XBASEFMT.TXT
    1037     579 44.1% 29-Jul-97 22:21:32  AmiODBC.txt
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   90573   26941 70.2% 08-Aug-97 19:28:22   7 files