Yes, Access would be ok, but it's too complicated for my end-users ....
I searched via google, but actually most of the products are not free.
Any other ?
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Is there any free DBF viewer for end-users?
For our users, it's unnecesary to buy Foxpro licenses, because, for a DBF file, they just need to see record fields, how many records are, first record, last record, etc. Not even modify data.
I saw http://www.dbsoftlab.com/F
Thanks!
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Yes, Excel can open old DBF files, maybe most of them. Problem is that there were/are some DBF that can't be open by Excel.
The case is this: my end-users are not the most brilliant people in the world. Because of work, our sales-men arrive at the office with DBF files, and their content has to be checked by my end-users. They use a software developed in VB6 for checking DBF, but sales-men want to see exactly what the DBF has. Foxpro would be ok, but as I said, too expensive for only watching data and counting records. We'd need just some free software to open DBF files.
not sure if this helps, i wrote it a long while ago but you are welcome to try it.
http://www.centurionerp.co
You did not find free DBF viewer???
http://www.google.com/sear
http://www.snapfiles.com/g
http://www.download3k.com/
http://www.freedownloadsce
http://dbfview.com/?gclid=
http://download.cnet.com/D
If you need more just tell.
andrewbarnett, yes, the question has been closed but I don't think you should be awarded... CaptainCyril answered as the first one and correctly. But it is author's right to close the question when he decides and to assign points to any answer.
So, I have to say: Sorry Captain, you have not been awarded. But it is not necessary because we all know points are not assigned as they could or should be sometimes. I could ask why there is no assistance points given to my answer containing the "viewer" source code. :-) Do you think it is important?
Regarding your viewer: I like it shows some messages in my regional language but it is still not product which I would release. Beside the fact it was posted too late, the first bug raised on the second click, some small DBFs were not readable etc. (one of them is attached). Several other free viewers from posted links will do much better job.
And the last question: Why do you think your viewer should work on miyahira's computer?
Independently on above paragraphs, every database expert is welcome here.
As I understand, the viewer needs to be VFP free.
I searched Google and got the links that I posted above. I could not open them that day because of low bandwidth. But I have seen a lot of nice DBF Viewers.
I wrote my own which translates it to HTML but it needs VFP :-).
I answered a lot of threads on this website and many times I don't get awarded the points. Specially there is this one guy who I slapped a comment to his face that he wants us the experts to do his work. He does not think or work. He just copy/pastes our code into his program.
I would call it pure management :-)
BTW, we are discussing here which is good. SQL Server zones are different - authors are able to award the first solution posted ASAP even when it is not correct... And EE has introduced the "Closer award" for authors.
It seems I have to write my own DBF viewer. But it will be in C++ (to learn something).
Hi experts,
After reading you last comments, I wil answer why pcelba's comments was awarded.
Because I got a free DBF viewer from this link:
http://www.snapfiles.com/g
It's a link that he recommended.
The other products that I got recommended, were not free or I couldn't run them.
As allways, thanks to all of you for your help.
Merry Christmas!
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by: CaptainCyrilPosted on 2009-11-03 at 10:17:06ID: 25731777
You can import any DBF to Access if they have office.
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I could not open these links but here are some samples:
http://www.freedownloadsce
http://www.freedownloadsce
http://www.download3k.com/
I got them via
http://www.google.com/sear