On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Voytek wrote:
> I have a user with an old DOS based accounting (Pastel), the data files are
> in some sort of btrieve files, are there any tools to open such to extract
> data ? either from a Linux system, or, otherwise
>
That's a can of worms you don't want to open. You're far better off trying
to use any built-in export/print/dump utilities Pastel provides to make
sense of the data. It's one thing to extract the data, something
completely different to make sense of it. You can probably run it under
dosemu if you had to. I have a client and a supplier that runs a Windows
version of pastel.
I've heard of people (and done it myself) setting up a samba printer to
capture output from programs that don't provide any export facility.
Basically if you can print to a dot-matrix printer from the application
you can capture it with a high probablility of it making sense enough to
write a conversion program/script to facilitate an import into something
else.
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