Not a Dbase Database error message 11

[Mlima]

Hi:

I have a daily procedure I always execute. I use Excel 2000 (9.0.2812) to convert a txt file (pipe flatfile) to .dbf Dbase III file, to enter to another process.

Strangely, today, when I called, in MSDOS, the dbase command, and tried to USE that .dbf file generated with Excel, it said: Not a Dbase Database. And I couldn't use it.

The most strangely: I still have one previous .txt file, converted yesterday without problems, and I can open its related .dbf file. So, I tried to reconvert that previous .txt file with Excel, it does, but when opening it with the dbase command, I had the same error message.

Can anyone guess what is happening? I thank a lot in advance.

Mario Lima./

 

[RickardH]

Please excuse my unfamiliarity with this forum, but where can I find JScannell's .exe fix for this problem?

I'm trying to maintain some very old software, via telephone, that I wrote several years ago. I do not work there any more, but I'm trying to help them keep the system going.

Thanks in Advance

 

[JScannell]

Being the author of the fix, I, too would like to know how to make it available to those who could use it. I could eMail it to anyone and everyone who wants it, but that would be troublesome to all of us. how about a repository where we can put programs, documents, and source code. Does anyone know of where that could be? Jerry Scannell
JScannell1@Home

 

[Guest_imported]

I'm trying to export an Access 97 table to dbase III plus. When I try to open the dbase file, I get the message "Not a dbase database."

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

John Barnhard
johnb@unionroofers.com

 

[CPAtech]

The solution is posted at this site

http://home.worldonline.dk/~rosberg/

with binary files to make corrections. It works on dbxl and other xbase products. See the CNET explanation at:

http://www.help.com/cgi-perl/reply/...=2&from=http://help.search.com/search?q=dbase

y2k&tag=st.hp.reply.r_bot

 

[janrae]

To: Not a dBASE database Solvers


Thanks, thanks, thanks.


JanRae

 

[eshack]

Dear Friends,

Thanks for all. The Dbase fix prog compiled in clipper works fine in fixing the database.

 

[Guest_imported]

Even I am getting the same error. Can any one come out with exact solution.

Regards,
Sreeram Sailendra A.V.

 

[MiggyD]

Well, you have at least three different solutions to pick from:

1) use a hex editor and change the numbers as GEMS indicated in Jan 4, 2001 above. (if you don't need to use the "last update" command in reports.)

2) use Clipper instead of DBase. (I believe version 6 was introduced when the Y2K scare started)

3) upgrade to DB2k (see home web site for cost...not to mention that it is now Visual DBase--but it does have its quirks [as indicated at the site])

Good Luck. --MiggyD

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

 

[markdelphiprogrammer]

The precise source code (in Pascal and in Delphi) needed to write a program to perform this fix is shown at this website:

http://www.softsci.com/support/y2k.htm