Category : Dbase (Clipper, FoxBase, etc) Languages Source Code
Archive : ATOD.ZIP
Filename : READ.ME
Output of file : READ.ME contained in archive : ATOD.ZIP
ASCII -> dBase Conversion Program
Bruce L. Keppler
217-753-5714
The purpose of this program is to allow the easy conversion of FIXED
field ASCII files into dBase III,III+ files.
The program will prompt you for the name of your input file and the
name of the database you wish to create. A search will be conducted to
locate the longest record in the ASCII file (within 5 characters). This
record will be displayed in the lower part of the screen. The cursor
will be positioned below the data line. Locate the Start of each
intended field with an S and the End of each field with an E. Once the
beginning and end of each file has been plotted, the program will prompt
you for each of the field names.
Each field will be made a Character field this can be changed later
with MODI STRU. This works very well with Lotus PRN files and anything
else that has a fixed field format. This program is limited to 150
character records in the original ASCII file.
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/