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Re: Re: Btrieve Code
by rje (Deacon) on Sep 09, 2003 at 20:28 UTC
    I've been looking for the same thing, and the BTRIEVE module in CPAN only supports "SAVE" files, and specifically does not support the "other 12 documented formats"... apparently including ".BTR" files (which is what I need a parser for). My fix is to install Pervasive on my computer and extract the database into a CSV and have Perl parse and inject that into our target db. That, or see if there's a Pervasive JDBC driver and do it in Java. Or maybe this is an excuse to learn Python. Or...
RE: Re: Btrieve Code
by Poetic Justice (Monk) on Aug 30, 2000 at 20:51 UTC
    Yea, got it. I've looked at it before. I still may be able to use it in this app. What I'm lookin' to do is pull the data from a Win32 system DSN into another Win32 system DSN (use appropriate SQL here). I'm trying to do something without using DBI, but there may be no way around it. "Licenses.....We don't neeed no steeeekin' licenses....