Re: Trading databases?

Levi Wallach (lwallach@his.com)
Wed, 31 Jul 1996 11:50:09 -0400

At 11:02 AM 7/31/96 -0400, "David M. Elins" <delins@xionics.com> wrote:
>There is a public domain program, gdbio, which will read .gdb files
>and produce a comma-separated-value ascii listing of the file.
>It will also import such an ascii file into a .gdb file.
>
>I think it will work on the phone book, so I guess you could dump out
>that phone book file, massage the ascii file to be in the format
>expected by your data base (enter a single record in your db and dump
>that out to see what the format should be), then import the ascii file
>into your db.

I'll take a look at it, thanks!

>Your idea of a database exchange is terrific. Perhaps someone with a web
>page will volunteer to keep a repository. It might be nice to share
>other data files also, such as spreasheets.

Well, I suppose since I suggested it, I should offer my home page as the
place. If anyone has databases they want to distribute, please email them
to me and I will create a section on my home page. I'll list the exact URL
once I get things set up.
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