Re: [libreoffice-users] *dbf files open in Calc & not Base

2011-06-21 Thread Tom Davies
To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sun, 19 June, 2011 0:17:17 Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] *dbf files open in Calc & not Base I don't think it is a bug. Microsoft Excel opens (imports) *.dbf files too. There is not much that Base opens directly. Is there a jDBC connector for *.dbf

RE: [libreoffice-users] *dbf files open in Calc & not Base

2011-06-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I don't think it is a bug. Microsoft Excel opens (imports) *.dbf files too. There is not much that Base opens directly. Is there a jDBC connector for *.dbf that you could use? Microsoft Access 2007 opens dBase III, IV, 5 I see (and it is the only one I have lying around that I can check). An

Re: [libreoffice-users] *dbf files open in Calc & not Base

2011-06-18 Thread Roland Hughes
While it may be counter intiutive, it is not a bug. There is only one Java class library which does something close to an adequate job when it comes to DBF files, and that is the xBaseJ class library which I wrote a book about. Despite calling dbf a "standard" there IS ABSOLUTELY NO XBASE STANDAR