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?
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>> "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
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