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.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                 3630   18896  19.2% -lh5- b186 May  9  1997 borland.txt
[generic]                 2007    6656  30.2% -lh5- bff3 May  9  1997 dbase.txt
[generic]                  974    3891  25.0% -lh5- 4cf0 May  9  1997 dbasefil.inf
[generic]                 1037    2067  50.2% -lh5- 627d May  9  1997 dbf.txt
[generic]                 3464    8299  41.7% -lh5- 186d May 12  1997 readme_b.txt
[generic]                15250   49727  30.7% -lh5- 18b5 May  9  1997 xbasefmt.txt
[generic]                  579    1037  55.8% -lh5- 3122 Jul 29  1997 AmiODBC.txt
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 Total         7 files   26941   90573  29.7%            Aug  8  1997