Goodmorning John;

A few years ago I mentioned that I had my 8” dBase II, CPM (and MPM) disks. One of the UT’s “resident experts” (one of those who God has endowed with infinite knowledge and the ability to charm anyone) explained to me that “there was never any such thing as an 8” floppy disk”!

By the way I had 4-8” Shugart Drives on a chassis labeled A, B, C, and D. I ran the calibration and metrology labs for Ampex Corporation and we controlled over 30,000 pieces of measurement and electronics test equipment. It took six months of spare time to write the program, and each time Ashton Tate came out with a new product it took a rewrite. Finally, I went to Fox, and gave up on Ashton Tate.

When electronics manufacturing left Silicon Valley, I went from electronics engineering to programming, put my kids through school and survived.


Well, I still have my 8“ floppies, but I got rid of the S-100 Computer. :)

Tom



>I believe you are confusing dBASE II with dBASE III. Big difference. dBASE II had no memo fields. However, I do believe that VFP should be able to read them and it looks like someone did something with these files that trashed the headers. So... Off I go with low level file reading.
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>By the way, I still have my original 8 inch CPM dBASE II floppy around here somewhere from 1983 I believe. It's how I got started in this business.
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>Thanks everyone for the input.
>John
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>>VFP will read these files without any problems. If memo fields are involved, VFP will convert them, I seem to remember that it's the same for mdx files (dBase version of cdx index files) . In other words, most likely you won't be able to use the files from dBase afterwards.
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>>>Hi folks,
>>>I can't believe someone just gave me a set of dBASE II tables. I don't have anything that will read them anymore. Can anyone point me to something that will? Even if I can just export to text would be a start. I know I could write a prg using fopen and fread and decipher the headers then read them but that would take more time than the job is paying.
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>>>Thanks,
>>>John.