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  • Cc: Karolis Labrencis <karolis AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • Subject: Re: [BL] DBF database package xdb-1.2.0 for glibc225
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:44:06 +0000 (UTC)

I have a dbf database of my vinyl records that sqlite probably cannot
handle (unless there is some way to convert dbf to sql).

I can't figure out how to use xdb - it appears to be a set of libraries and other things for programmers, not a viewer/editor.

CDBF for linux is so buggy that it cannot even properly convert to SQL (it puts the same string at the start of each line 'import into ....') or maybe I just don't know how to use the output.

I searched for other dbf viewers/editors.

dbf2sql - enormous number of dependencies such as rpmlib postgresql-libs libpam libpq openssl libssl..... and inserts dbf files into sql tables.
There are several shareware convertors for Windows but I don't feel like learning sql.

dbview - very small (under 10K package) viewer only, not editor. Only shows one entire record at a time one field above the other, followed by the next (use 'less'). I would be better off exporting dbf to text form (which CDBF does do properly).

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dollybase - 2005 prealpha version.

The program is supposed to view, edit, and export dbf files (to SQL, CSV, HTML) and import PostgreSQL.

It won't compile (in BL2, where I have ncurses as required)
Compiles the libraries and then gets stuck:
gcc -w -I ./src/header -I ./libdbase -I ./src/lxdialog
src/dbase.c -o dbase libdbase/.libs/libdbase_0.1_s.a
src/cdk/libcdk.a -lcurse -ll -lmenu -lform
/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -ll

Exited with Error 1 after compiling libdbase libraries correctly (I also compiled them in a separate package).

I removed the -ll from two places in Makefile and it then compiled but would not work ('This kink [sic] of file' is not supported, even its own sample file). It did display things in overlapping console 'windows' but would not view any dbf files.

What is -ll? An online search was not helpful/understandable. Am I missing some piece needed to compile? It uses flex which I do have, and ar and ncurses and curses.

Steven, could you compile this program for BL3.50? I can't be the only BL user with leftover .dbf files from DOS. The only three DOS programs I still use are Wordperfect, a small CAD program, and a couple of database viewers/editors (CDBF in DOS is less buggy than in linux).

dollybase-0.1-prealpha-noruntime.tar.gz is the source code






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