Re: DBF/Network Application

["Brian Catlin" <BrianC@sannas.org.bad>]

"Brian May" <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote in message 
news:sa4d63xo2o1.fsf@snoopy.apana.org.au...
>>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Catlin <BrianC@sannas.org.bad> writes:
>
>    Brian> Take a look at http://www.adalog.fr/publicat/aws.pdf They
>    Brian> dealt with many of the same issues that you are struggling
>    Brian> with
>
> Thanks for the reference.
>
> Unfortunately (for me at least!), it appears that they decided to
> "upgrade" from their DBF files to a SQL based database, and a web
> based/HTML communications meets there communication requirements.
>
> Hence, they have not considered how to read/write DBF files or get two
> programs communicating to each other with structured & low bandwidth
> data.

You can access .DBF files using ODBC (at least on Windows).  To talk to ODBC 
using Ada (again, on Windows), see http://www.adapower.com/os/odbc.html
Also, take a look at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/contrib.html

 -Brian