What does passing the file through strings do?
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun <[email protected]> wrote: > So, akin to http://www.fileformat.info/format/corion-dbase-iii.htm ? > > If so, you may have luck opening it in Libreoffice directly, or try to > import it there? > https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Importing_and_Exporting_dBASE_Files > > If you can get it into Libreoffice, you can then export as csv and use the > "load data infile" command for mysql > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html > > Hope this helps, let me know if not! > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes. I cat the .db file and it says mysql3 format. The file is really >> the index to back issues of Fine Woodworking. The program they provide is >> windows only and they don't 'support' Linux, so I would like to be able to >> parse it myself. So they don't provide the schema of the file. >> >> The DVD has 38 years of PDF file of issues. >> >> I did try the dbview program, and it indicated it is using version 83 of >> the db file format (dbase defined the initial versions on DOS way back >> when, from my rememberance anyway) >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello Jack, >>> >>> Do you know which commercial database provided the file? Is the file >>> binary? >>> >>> - wesley >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I have a .db file from a commercially provided database. >>>> >>>> How can I import the db to either Libre Base of mysql ? >>>> >>>> I do not have the db layout of the db file. Suggestions? >>>> -- >>>> ><> ... Jack >>>> >>>> "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 >>>> "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" >>>> - Henry J. 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Jack >> >> "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 >> "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - >> Henry J. Tillman >> "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - >> Albert Einstein >> "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral >> Grace Hopper, USN >> "a nanosecond is the time it takes electrons to propigate 11.8 inches" >> - " - http://youtu.be/JEpsKnWZrJ8 >> >> "Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part." - Martin >> Terma >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > http://www.wesleyduffeebraun.com > <http://www.ashevillephotobooth.com> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. 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