Re: Accessing berkely database files
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On 04/01/07 19:02, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:39:14 GMT
> "s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca> wrote:
>
>> Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>:
>>> Is there any program available for linux (preferably packaged for
>>> debian), that would allow me to examine the contents of berkely
>>> database files? (I think that they are version 3)
>> Version 3?!? Perhaps I'm comparing apples and oranges (BDB vs. Btree?)[0],
>> but bogofilter here uses BDB "Btree, version 8", which
>> sounds to me like you're researching ancient history. However, bf
>> also supplies bogoutil, which can dump (export) its BDB. bogoutil is:
>>
>
> It is very ancient history (data from some old vetrinary clinic program which
> is no longer supported but still in use by a friend but causing some problems
> and I'm trying to read the files to be less blind about this.
>
> Turns out that it's a borland paradox database though, just as old I'm afraid.
>
> Managed to dump parts of it and now I need to figure out why window messes up
> and whether it will run on wine so that she can bypass windows alltogether.
This is a link from the Paradox Wikipedia page to a conversion tool
written in C:
http://jan.kneschke.de/projects/pxtools/
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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