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From: Dan Putler <dan.putler <at> sauder.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: tool to convert dBase (dbf) files
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gis.freegis
Date: 2007-12-04 19:35:49 GMT (1 year, 5 weeks, 1 day, 20 hours and 23 minutes ago)
R (www.r-project.org) can do it via its foreign library. The underlying
code that the R foreign library uses is Frank Warmerdam's ShapeLib C
library (http://shapelib.maptools.org).

Dan Putler

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 18:46 +0000, Tim Michelsen wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a large dBase file from a GRASS vector wich I want to process as an ascii
> file.
> 
> The number of records surpasses the number of maximum records in OOo Calc or
> Gnumeric.
> 
> Is there a tool which can convert a dBase file into a ASCII or CSV file?
> 
> I found a Freeware tool from a German website:
> WinDBF32 Datenbank Editor - http://www.buchenwald.de/software/index.html
> 
> Is there something like this as FOSS?
> 
> Or does anyone know whether I can directly export a attribute table from a GRASS
> vector to ascii?
> 
> Thanks in advance and kind regards,
> Tim
> 
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Dan Putler
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia