.FIL files

[Rick C. Hodgin]

I posted this in dBASE, but I thought I would post it here too in case any aging VFP developers like myself ever used dBASE back in the day and came across .FIL files. Maybe there's someone who has some idea on how to process the? I've tried dBASE II and dBASE III+. Nothing seems to recognize them.

https://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1812244

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Rick C. Hodgin

 

[Mike Lewis]

Rick,

I was around in dBASE days, but I don't recall ever coming across this type of file. I wonder if it was Clipper or Quicksilver, or one of the other clones? Or even early Foxbase?

Perhaps I could turn the question round. Where did you get these files from? And what were you expecting to use them for? Is there some specific data that you need to extract from them?

Welcome to the forum by the way. You've come to the right place with this question. There are many "ageing developers" here, and most of them have better memories than I do.

Mike

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[Mike Lewis]

I just noticed that the Wikipedia aricle on dBASE lists FIL as meaning "Files list design object file". That doesn't mean anything to me, but others might know what it means.

Mike

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