Subject Re: [firebird-support] DBF to GDB??
Author Bogusław Brandys
Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I assume the old stuff was a Clipper system using dBase files.
>
> You could use e.g. IBexpert (http://www.ibexpert.com/) with it's
> Interbase Datapump plug in to read the DBF files in and write them to a
> Firebird database.
>
> However I doubt that the DBF file structure is the same that you want to
> have in you Firebird tables, so you probably will end up writing a small
> conversion program reading in the DBF files using a ODBC/ADO connection
> and converting/writting it to your Firebird database.
>
> See you
> Werner

or you can do this on the other side - after importing data to
temporary Firebird tables.... :-)

Boguslaw