Larry Bates wrote: > Michael B. Trausch wrote: > >>I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this. Someone I >>know is trying to move away from Microsoft Works, and I am trying to >>look into a solution that would convert their data in a lossless fashion >>to a more modern format. The database has more than 65K rows, so >>converting it to be an Excel spreadsheet, would, AFAIK, not be an option. [...] > MS ships ODBC interface to xBase databases in all versions of Windows. > You don't need Access. Just create DSN to your exported dBase database > and MS Word, MS Excel, and any other ODBC aware product
Including, presumably, mx.ODBC in Python, which gives the most attractive possibilities for output. can read the > data. If the data size is large or if you want to move to server, you > can do that later. > regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
