On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 01:34 +0100, Thomas Springer wrote: > Am Freitag, den 16.12.2005, 18:02 -0600 schrieb Gregory P. Ennis: > > Dear List, > > > > I have never had to use a *.dbf file in Fedora before today. > Same here. > > > Can anyone > > advise me as to a database package that will allow me to open a dbf file > > on FC4? > > > $ yum search dbase > Searching Packages: > > > xbase.i386 2.0.0-3.fc4 extras > Matched from: > XBase is an xbase (i.e. dBase, FoxPro, etc.) compatible C++ class > library originally by Gary Kunkel and others (see the AUTHORS file). > > XBase is useful for accessing data in legacy dBase 3 and 4 database > files as well as a general light-weight database engine. It includes > support for DBF (dBase version 3 and 4) data files, NDX and NTX indexes, > and DBT(dBase version 3 and 4). It supports file and record locking > under *nix OS's. > > You might want to > $ yum install dbase > > > Thomas > Thomas, Thanks for the suggestion. Was not aware of the 'yum search' syntax cool!!! Greg
