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todBase is a 'bridge to dBase' tool developed by 4GL.
Why export to dBase ?
- dBase format is a standard. Many third-party products read dBase files : report writers, Office components : EXCEL, WORD, ACCESS without any additional driver,
- With a dBase file you don't need to install any ODBC driver. Most popular products read dBase in a native manner.
- Are you sure that you want to expose your vital data without any control to an end-user ?
- Nothing to do on a PC to install a dBase interface,
- You can preprocess all data that you want to give to your users: calculated fields, filters, file joins. You can show a more useful collection of fields to the user.
- … …
Why another tool to export to dbase ?
- Previous tools are static and you can't export any file without having to generate an export program before,
- You can't export preprocessed files like TEMP-TABLES or queries,
- They always need a development PROGRESS version,
- In some other cases, they don't support fields with more than 254 characters in length (memo fields)
- They don’t support PROGRESS extent fields
- With the new dynamic queries in PROGRESS V9, you may create a query in the flight with dynamic criterias. You want to send this dynamic result list to a dBase file. … …
todBase is quite different from the other solutions that you could find in this area :
- Support of MEMO fields,
- No need of a development PROGRESS version to use it,
- Support of buffers, temp-tables, queries, dynamic or static without any difference,
- Support of 'extent' fields,
- todBase is really easy to use. Two parameters are required :
1) a buffer or query handle
2) the name of the output dBase file.
- You can stay in touch of process status for displaying : number of records, size of dbase record, load progression …
todBase uses the new dynamic functions available with PROGRESS version 9.
Of course, you must have (at least) PROGRESS Version 9 to use this tool.
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