Re: dBase 3 to FoxPro or ???
From: YD (yd.techHAT_at_techie.com)
Date: 11/16/04
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:18:34 -0300
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:57:08 GMT, Robert Baer
<robertbaer@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Tim Shoppa wrote:
>>
>> Robert Baer <robertbaer@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<419091B0.82C58320@earthlink.net>...
>> > I have a dBASE 3 application that must remain in true, pure DOS
>> > (Windows not allowed even if quiet).
>> > The size of the database files is getting large and dBASE is slowing
>> > down, and at times "stutters".
>> > Does anyone have FoxPro for DOS or any other decent database language
>> > for DOS (ie: Paradox is excluded)?
>>
>> It depends on what you're doing in dBase3, but the most logical rehosting
>> to modern tools would probably be either to a BerkeleyDB implementation
>> (good for embedded stuff where the database is accessed in the same way
>> over and over again) or to a free SQL implementation (good for when a
>> wide variety of queries are run) like mySQL.
>>
>> BerkeleyDB: http://www.sleepycat.com/
>> MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/
>>
>> Since you say Windows isn't allowed I won't go into all the evils of
>> MS Access and why you should never ever touch it :-).
>>
>> Tim.
>
> Thanks for giving the possibility; sending a query to them for more
>pertinet info.
Go Linux and MySQL. You can export the dBase files as tab separated
text files and import them to MySQL. I've done it in DOS/Win without
too much of a hassle except for getting the syntax just right on both
sides. Those were rather small files, at most a couple thousand
entries, so I can't say what happens when they exceed humongous.
Linux isn't that hard to get to grips with, especially as you won't be
using the GUI. FreeBSD is better documented, has all the needed apps
and is optimised for servers. Install PHP and Apache for a web
interface to the database, use Samba to set up a file server on a
Microshaft Network.
- YD.
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