Anyone Work with Clipper Databases?

[genr8er]

I need to extract data from an old (1987) Clipper datbase. I am hoping that the data are stored in DBF files. Does anyone know anything about this?

Thanks!

[rigman]

have you tried to read the data?

If FM won't read it, try excel or access. you could then re-import into FM from those.

I used to develop under Dbase, and when clipper came out I recall hearing it handled the DBF format, (not sure if this was a default for all solutions) so I could be wrong...

[bdam]

In my experience, DBF files are nothing more than flat-files, that is to say simple text files. As rigman mentions, you should be able to open them in Excel and save as a delimited file.