On 01 Jan 2008 in soc.genealogy.computing, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:46:14 +0000, Chad Hanna
> <chad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Steve Hayes wrote:
>>> Someone has sent me some information in .dbf files (and some
>>> others, which may be indexes). Does anyone know which program may
>>> have been used to create these files, and which one could use to
>>> read them?
>>
>>Originally Dbase - many programs will read Dbase files including:
>
> Good grief, did I forget so soon!
>
>>Microsoft Excel and Access 2000, Lotus Approach and 1-2-3, Paradox,
>>Buttonware PC-File
>
> I've got some of those somewhere, but not all of them seem to work
> with Windows XP.
Foxbase also used (uses?) .dbf extensions, and although the file format
was similar, not all programs which would work with dBase .dbfs would
read Foxbase .dbfs.
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Joe Makowiec
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