On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:46:30 +0000, Chad Hanna <chad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>Steve Hayes wrote:
>> On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:46:14 +0000, Chad Hanna <chad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
>>
>
>I haven't tried Paradox on Win XP and I'm not sure about PC-File.
>
>Base in OpenOffice should also work according to:
>http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Base
I tried it, and it did -- unfortunately without knowing the data model it
would have taken days of work to link the files. Fortunately i managed to
persuade the sender to send me a GEDCOM file instead. It showed it was
produced by Rootsmagic, so I assume that that was the original
application.
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