software to read visual foxpro database files.

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Moriah · Post by **Moriah** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:42 pm

I am looking for a way to read some ancient visual foxpro files. Googliing around tells me that it is the same format as dBASE-II and friends, so called xbase files. I tried to install the python dbf package, but pip will not connect to the necessary reporitory for me. probably a company firewalling issue. I don't know. I also read that openoffice can read these files, but openoffice no longer shows up when I do an emerge -s looking for it.

Can anyone suggest a way to read these files? It would be great if I could export them to a csv format...

Post by **Banana** » Mon Jan 13, 2025 8:32 pm

No, but I can only tell that https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/ap ... ibreoffice is the successor for openoffice. Maybe this can help.

Moriah · Post by **Moriah** » Thu Jan 23, 2025 12:10 pm

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, libreoffice's calc spreadsheet tool is able to directly read *.dbf files and save them as *.csv files. In addition, libreoffice has the ability to operate in a batch mode to perform such a conversion on a set of files directly from a scriptable command line invocation. This was extremely helpful in my recent work on a collection of about 350 *.dbf files I needed to mine data from.