On 01 Jan 2008 in soc.genealogy.computing, Steve Hayes wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:46:14 +0000, Chad Hanna > <chad@chadhanna.co.uk> wrote: > >>Steve Hayes wrote: >>> Someone has sent me some information in .dbf files (and some >>> others, which may be indexes). Does anyone know which program may >>> have been used to create these files, and which one could use to >>> read them? >> >>Originally Dbase - many programs will read Dbase files including: > > Good grief, did I forget so soon! > >>Microsoft Excel and Access 2000, Lotus Approach and 1-2-3, Paradox, >>Buttonware PC-File > > I've got some of those somewhere, but not all of them seem to work > with Windows XP. Foxbase also used (uses?) .dbf extensions, and although the file format was similar, not all programs which would work with dBase .dbfs would read Foxbase .dbfs. -- Joe Makowiec http://makowiec.org/ Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe