Re: Help
Clipper data files come in many flavours--dBASE III-compatible, FoxPro-compatible, even SQL-Server-compatible. AFAIK there is not a Clipper RDD for MySQL. Neither is there a mysql plugin database engine that reads dBASE III, FoxPro or SQL Server files. So you have three main choices ...
(i) generate CSV data dumps from a Clipper (or DBASE III or FoxPro etc) app,
(ii) if you have an ODBC driver for your flavour of Clipper-generated dbfs, access them in ODBC and port them to mysql, which has an ODBC driver, or
(iii) write a program in any language you please to read those files directly to dump the contents (which might not be as hard as it sounds because a .dbf is simply an ASCII data file with a binary header--the hard part is extracting memo file data).
PB
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/02/2007 08:52PM by Peter Brawley.
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