Accessing Data Files

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Accessing Data Files

Post by Guest » Thu Jul 18, 2002 3:19 am

I have been asked to write a utility for a program that was written in QuickBasic 4.5. This utility needs to access data files that are maintainedby the QB program. The data file is not a format that I have seen. I'm used to working with ascii flat files when I programmed in Basic. It appears that these files are some type of binary file.

I was wondering if there was an "accepted" file format and if anyone knew of a "viewer" that could be used so that I can get the salient properties of these files? I doubt that there is an ODBC, but I may be wrong.

TIA.
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Re: Accessing Data Files

Post by Jehovah » Fri Nov 01, 2002 10:49 pm

It may be a wordperfect file.  I am pretty sure that MS WORD will open wordperfect files, but you have to install the decryptor manualy.
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