Hello John
This may not be such a big problem:
1) Delete any index'es (*.IND)
2) Rename *.DAT to *.DBF
3) Open the DBF's with a DBF-viewer (see http://www.legendsoft.com/, look
for freeware edition)
4) Now inspect the field types and create your TAB-file manually
DBF doesn't support the same field types as mapinfo, so you will have to do
a little guessing:
Character fields: C, any size
Integer: C, size 4
Small integer: C, size 2
Float: C, size 8
Date: C, size 4
Decimal: N
Logical: L
5) Rename *.DBF to *.DAT
Regards
Uffe Kousgaard
- Original Message -
From: Van Uitregt, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 4:55 AM
Subject: MI: I lost my .TAB ... ARGH!!!
> Hello All,
>
> I have lost the .TAB file from the standard 5 mapinfo files. I have a
> good idea of the 19 column names and types, but am unable to recreate it
> textually so that I can open the table. I have even created a new table
> and stolen the .TAB from it, but to no avail. Have I got any chance of
> doing this? PLEASE HELP!
>
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