[Dbfpy-users] dbfpy compatibility question

[Helmut J. <jar...@sk...>]

Hi,

I've tried to modify a .dbf file for the first time.
Our good old DBASE III+ (under a DOS emulator)
didn't like this new .dbf file.

1) it has a year 2000 problem,
    it doesn't store year-1900 as dbfpy
    does, but   year % 100

2) dbfpy stores "\0"*4 in the "Displacement of field in record"
     (according to http://www.dbf2002.com/dbf-file-format.html)
     whereas DBASE III+ stores   11 00 8B 3A for the
     very first field and then   11+<sum of lengths of preceding fields>
     for the following fields.
     What's your rational to set this to 0? And where does this
     8B 3A come from?

Many thanks for your comment,
Helmut.

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany