RE: MI-L View DAT file

2005-08-22 Thread Cameron McGregor
from the file headers, so I enter it in hexadecimal numbers also using UltraEdit. -Original Message- From: Scott Daugherty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 9:54 AM To: Cameron McGregor; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: MI-L View DAT file I believe yo

RE: MI-L View DAT file

2005-08-22 Thread Scott Daugherty
I believe you can change a copy of the dat files extention to dbf and import the dbf into MI. -Original Message- From: Cameron McGregor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 5:51 AM To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: MI-L View DAT file Hi there, After a powe

RE: MI-L View DAT file

2005-08-22 Thread SCISOFT
You might possibly construct a .TAB file (with Notepad), since you probably know the fieldnames and types/sizes that were being constructed by the process that was producing the TAB/DAT/MAP/ID fileset. Also, I'm sure that someone has re-written the 'native' DBF class to use the same datatype defi

Re: MI-L View DAT file

2005-08-22 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
Hi cameron, No, there no easy way to view a DAT file. You can try to rename it as a DBF file, but depending on the type of fields in the file, it may not work. Float fields are for instance a DAT file speciality. Float is the same format as defined by IEEE and used internally by the CPU. If