From: Boon van der RJ <rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: Database programming with djgpp
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 99 13:48:26
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Leszek Kroczynski <lkroczynski AT elbacsb DOT com DOT pl> wrote:
> Are there any libraries that support database 
> programming with djgpp? At least .dbf.
> Any links, ideas?

This came up in the newsgroup some weeks ago, hgfernan AT usp DOT br wrote:
<begin quote>
| I'd like to write an app under MS-DOS that should be portable to
| Linux subsequently.
| 
| It will update and consult a relatively small database. I'll use a
| DBF compatible library for the (quasi) database management: i'm
| considering (GPL) Xbase DBMS, that i found in
| http://www.gbob.com/xbase/xbase.html
| 
| It is a C/C++ library that supports all dBase III+ features, and
| some of dBase IV. It has even (Perl) tools for the conversion of
| Clipper programs, at
| http://www.gbob.com/xbase/Xb2cpp.html
| 
| Another very useful link is XBase Format File Description, at
| http://www.e-bachmann.dk/docs/xbase.htm
| 
| that describes even the .ntx Clipper indexing format, not so easy to
| find.
<end quote>

I think this is as close as you can get to a database system with DJGPP,
which supports .dbf's

I glanced at the xbase library myself and it seems to work.

hth,
 Robert.