Re: Manipulate a special file in Delphi

nz039926@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for reply.
> I don't know the file format because the company "tbred" is keeping
> secret.  I convert the file into ASCII by running a Business Basic
> "tbred" program which will loop through the file and convert\write its
> data into ASCII file.
> 
> I don't think it's possible to convert the tbred file into ASCII within
> delphi, so I think the solution is to write an intelligent Delphi
> application which will convert the bits of data I need.  The Delphi
> application will run the same tbread program(through telnet) to convert
> the needed records into ASCII.
> But I need to bear in mind the following:
> The file might contain so many records that it will take a long time to
> covet it into ASCII.
> User might not be interested in diplaying the first records of the
> file, i.e he might be interested in displaying the records at the end
> of file. In this instance it would be a waste of time converting the
> records at the beginning of the file.
> 
> Any ideas are welcome.
> Thanks,
> A.
> 
  have you thought about using the Dbase engine/application
that it was created by to make a dump in text format of all
the records?
  i would think it must be possible to dump the contents in a
text file from that application ?
  from there you could simply read it.

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