And again, PowerBasic for DOS is not death.
For many cases, the old dBase DBF file format is still the best choice to use.
The old rule "fixed length records waste a lot of valuable space" also won't really matter in todays time, where a "normal" OS already grabbs a few GB of your harddisc.
Flat files, speedy access, transparent and calculatable records, still a great solution for all kind of medium sized datastructures.
How easy to handle any kind of dataset with a predefined number of records ...
How easy to handle a whole year on a daily base. Just use a DBF file with 365 records ...
The library is available for PB-Dos and PB-Win/CC, using exact the same commands.
To handle further updates and changes better, I decide to host the whole archive on my own webspace. Please go to below link to download the actual archive as well as additional informations (if available) ...
www.china-bizz.com/software/powerbasic
The dBase file format is well designed, but not completely documented for public. A lot of analysis and debugging was necessary to build up this library. All my thanks goes to
Daniel P. Stasinski
Richard Maurino
Erik Olson
and Manuel Valdes
This library is based on ideas, code and inspirations from them.
If anybody has some ideas for functions or other enhancements, feel free and drop me a PM ...
Hopefully, this all is still useful for somebody out, at least for me it is ...
Have fun
Gerry
For many cases, the old dBase DBF file format is still the best choice to use.
The old rule "fixed length records waste a lot of valuable space" also won't really matter in todays time, where a "normal" OS already grabbs a few GB of your harddisc.
Flat files, speedy access, transparent and calculatable records, still a great solution for all kind of medium sized datastructures.
How easy to handle any kind of dataset with a predefined number of records ...
How easy to handle a whole year on a daily base. Just use a DBF file with 365 records ...
The library is available for PB-Dos and PB-Win/CC, using exact the same commands.
To handle further updates and changes better, I decide to host the whole archive on my own webspace. Please go to below link to download the actual archive as well as additional informations (if available) ...
www.china-bizz.com/software/powerbasic
The dBase file format is well designed, but not completely documented for public. A lot of analysis and debugging was necessary to build up this library. All my thanks goes to
Daniel P. Stasinski
Richard Maurino
Erik Olson
and Manuel Valdes
If anybody has some ideas for functions or other enhancements, feel free and drop me a PM ...
Hopefully, this all is still useful for somebody out, at least for me it is ...
Have fun
Gerry
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