Re: .gdb Files

Jeff Shapiro (jshapiro@ao.net)
Mon, 28 Oct 1996 07:51:21 -0500

Michael Halleen wrote:
>
> At 02:15 PM 10/26/96 -0700, Lou Lavanau wrote:
I might add to Michael Halleen's comments (below):

1. GDBIO converts comma-delimited text into .gdb files;
2. To initialize a .gdb file on the Ogo after creating it from
comma-delimited text, you must add a record to another Ogo database
file, master.mdb. Master.mdb contains a description of all the database
files on the Ogo. The new record describes your new database, and
master.mdb will let the Ogo database program see the new database. I
found that the Ogo automatically corrected the number of records in the
new master.mdb entry (the new record), but it took it a lot of hang
time.

> GDBIO is a dos program that converts .gdb files into comma delimeted text.
>
> GDB Convert is a windows program that includes GDBIO and does the above
> translation plus converts the text file into Excel and other formats.
>
> Both are available at http://www.mcs.com/~halleen/shareware
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Jeff Shapiro 
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