Re: dbf input filter

[DvB <dvanbalen jam rr com>]

> > We currently have an xbase importer that purports to handle .dbf
> > files.  However, there is no export capability and the code is currently
> > unmaintained.  Please have a look at it and evaluate how much overlap
> > there is between the two implementations.
>
> This would be a great addition to either unixODBC or GNOME-DB.  unixODBC
> has a flat-file ODBC driver that is supposed to be easily extensible in
> order to allow other file formats to be integrated.  Then the DBF files
> would be available to GNOME apps that support GDA (which has a ODBC
> <-> GNOME-DB bridge driver), PHP, StarOffice, etc....


The functionality of my library is fundamentally the same as that of the 
xbase plugin currently in gnumeric, except that mine's written in C++ 
and appears to have some extra functionality, most of which is probably 
superfluous to the needs of an app like gnumeric (funny though that I 
can't get gnumeric 0.64 to open dbf files. It says "Could not read file 
foo.dbf").