>>Then all you would have to add is the header, using low level file I/O. Fabricating the header of course requires that you know how many records will end up in the resulting table. And then, change the extension to Dbf.
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>>I've never done anything like the above - so it could all be complete tosh. Just an idea.
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>Very interesting idea, Houston. Would be great, if somebody would implement it (no, not me :)) Dragan, are you lurking? :)

No, you won't get me this time :)
Last time I did this was in 1990, when we still didn't have the low level file functions, so I had to play around with GW Basic to get the thing done. It actually took creating an empty .dbf with the exact structure, then appending the records (I actually had a hosed chunk of a real .dbf file, whose header got hosed by a virus or disk failure), then storing the number of records into the header. It was lots of guesswork, because I didn't have the exact format of the header back then. Frankly, it's still feasible, it's just the CRLFs that need to be handled first - see my other message.

OK, I wrote the specs, who's coding :)