Re: [Dbfpy-users] dbfpy compatibility question

[alexander s. <al...@ty...>]

Helmut Jarausch wrote, at 26.03.2009 20:56:
> 
> 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?

must be a bug.  i'd expect it to be FoxPro-style offset from the 
beginning of record.

on the other hand, it does not seem to have any effect.

>      And where does this 8B 3A come from?

according to 
http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/format/dbf.html#DBF_NOTE_6_TARGET, 


DBASE III+ keeps in that field an "address in memory".  i have no idea 
what could be the meaning of that.

best wishes,
alex.