Hi, It's an even smaller problem than describes by Uffe. In MapInfo: File> Open Table... Select Filetypes>DBF In the Filename enter *.dat og hit Enter Go to the directory where your *.dat file without the Tab file is found. Select the *.dat file and voila... MapInfo automatically created the *.tab file and next time you just select this one. Good luck! Peter Kampsax, Denmark --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
