>To get around the 16384 record limit when exporting to Excel, I tried this:
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>COPY TO MYFILE.XLS TYPE FOX2X
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>Excel seems to open the file with no problem. Besides warning about being in a DBF format when you go to re-save the file, are there any issues with doing this? Is there a better way to get around the problem? I tried CSV, but Excel converted some character fields to numeric.
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>Thanks.
I think you can even save as a comma-delimited file, with XLS extension.
The main issue with the DBF format in general is that it uses a DOS codepage, not a Windows codepage. This will cause problems for non-English languages, which have lots of diacritical marks. I am not sure whether this will be any better with a comma-delimited file, but it may be worth a try.
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