Trey,
This is a solution but the non ASCII characters that MapInfo inserts in a
field and the chance of having an incompatible field name makes it safer to
"Save Copy As" and select .dbf.
John Haynes
Director
Geodata Consultants, Inc.
1-800-838-6661
www.geodataconsult.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trey Pattillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "MapInfo List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Uffe Kousgaard"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:32 PM
Subject: MI-L Re: Commiting tables without map
> Hello,
>
> The DAT file is actually a DBF that can be opened in dBase, etc, by
changing
> the extension from DAT to DBF
> I'd close the table, copy the TAB and NewName.TAB [Save File old_filespec
> As new_filespec [ Append ] ]
> then the same for the DAT and replace the extension.
>
>
> Trey Pattillo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.wap3.com
>
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>
> To ME or not to ME, that is the question.
> For some it will be to Whistle
> and indure the thorns and thistle.
> For me it is not to ME, but to NT,
> The OS for ME !
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Uffe Kousgaard
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 02:45
> Subject: MI-L: Commiting tables without map
>
>
> Hi Everybody
>
> Now it is my turn to ask a question to MI-L:
>
> I have a table, which is mappable. What is the most efficient and
elegant
> way in MB to create a copy of it, but without the map-part ?
>
> Basically I want to avoid copying a very big MAP+ID file, which I may
not
> need in the next step of my calculations, where I just need the TAB+DAT
> file.
>
> This is what I want, but it is too slow:
> Commit table "table1" as table2
> open table2
> drop map table2
>
> Other options include
> 1) Export to DBF format and then register the DBF
> 2) Temporarily rename the MAP+ID file of table1, before commiting
> 3) Do a straight filecopy of table1.tab+table1.dat, but the tabular data
> could be in a whole different format (xls etc.)
>
> Isn't there a simple and elegant solution ?
>
> Regards
> Uffe
>
>
>
>
>
>
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