Importing from RBase?

[Marcus Smaby]

I have inhereted an RBase database and need to see if I can pull the data
accross into Access 2003. I do not have a copy of RBase to open this
database and export it to a common format so I am looking for a way to gain
access directly. Is there perhaps an ODBC driver (free!!) that would let me
do this? I know nothing about rBase.

TIA

Marcus

 

[Mike Painter]

I have inhereted an RBase database and need to see if I can pull the
data accross into Access 2003. I do not have a copy of RBase to open
this database and export it to a common format so I am looking for a
way to gain access directly. Is there perhaps an ODBC driver (free!!)
that would let me do this? I know nothing about rBase.

I'm pretty sure that rBase used dbase type files. Try renaming the extension
and see if that works.
If not try opening the file in Wordpad. Chaces are that, like dBase, you can
just wack the header off and have a fixed length text file.