Hello John This may not be such a big problem: 1) Delete any index'es (*.IND) 2) Rename *.DAT to *.DBF 3) Open the DBF's with a DBF-viewer (see http://www.legendsoft.com/, look for freeware edition) 4) Now inspect the field types and create your TAB-file manually DBF doesn't support the same field types as mapinfo, so you will have to do a little guessing: Character fields: C, any size Integer: C, size 4 Small integer: C, size 2 Float: C, size 8 Date: C, size 4 Decimal: N Logical: L 5) Rename *.DBF to *.DAT Regards Uffe Kousgaard ----- Original Message ----- From: Van Uitregt, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 4:55 AM Subject: MI: I lost my .TAB ... ARGH!!! > Hello All, > > I have lost the .TAB file from the standard 5 mapinfo files. I have a > good idea of the 19 column names and types, but am unable to recreate it > textually so that I can open the table. I have even created a new table > and stolen the .TAB from it, but to no avail. Have I got any chance of > doing this? PLEASE HELP! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
