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I am asking if it is possible to encrypt an entire .dbf file (without memo) by setting the flag in the dbf header?
And then?
What do i have to do to read and write the fields in the .dbf ?


Thanks
Lorenzo

Hello Silvio,
I only mentioned this because Jimmy comes from a different "dBase" corner, where it is absolutely not customary to have access to the language's source code.
It is the generosity of Antonio who provided the source code of FIVEWIN to all of us.

Best regards,
Otto

... Hola, llevo años programando en Harbour en modo consola después de pasar por Clipper y los ya lejanos tiempos del dBase. Dispongo de varias aplicaciones las cuales, por diversas razones, he tenido que proteger de miradas extrañas. Para ello, escogí el producto VMProtect ...

Point 2 : You can have only 1x the same fieldname What you show is 2x a record name Point3 : I think 1024 fields https://www.dbase.com/Knowledgebase/faq/dBASE_Limits_FAQ.html I saw the link and on that page I see this Number of fields per table (dBASE for Windows) 1024 but ...

Point 2 :

You can have only 1x the same fieldname

What you show is 2x a record name

Point3 : I think 1024 fields

https://www.dbase.com/Knowledgebase/faq/dBASE_Limits_FAQ.html

... files. A DBF driven web page on your own server is compleatly a different world. You can copy & past organize your content with your desktop dBase editor. On behalf of our entire team, I would like to thank Antonio for developing mod harbour. I hope you enjoy the new web page. Best regards, ...

... files. A DBF driven web page on your own server is compleatly a different world. You can copy & past organize your content with your desktop dBase editor. On behalf of our entire team, I would like to thank Antonio for developing mod harbour. I hope you enjoy the new web page. Best regards, ...

Buenos días,

esta mañana me he encontrado con un episodio de un podcast que me ha llamado la atención:

https://parceladigital.com/podcast/dbase-clipper-y-la-epoca-dorada-de-la-programacion-de-gestion

No lo he escuchado, esta tarde lo haré, lo dejo por si os interesa a alguien.

Saludos,

Dear Otto,

This continues being the truth, just replace "dBase" with "others" and Clipper reborn into Harbour

... https://github.com/hansmarc/Otis Version 1.22 b01 (09/05/2021) Otis stands for 'Open Table InSpector' and is a database table inspection tool for Dbase, Clipper, Harbour, xHarbour, FoxPro, ..., files. Otis has a integrated DATASET manager. This need some explanations. A DATASET is a set of ONE ...

Hello Jose, I started this thread as an impulse. I see that there is no such thing as a perfect dBase editor tool. There are feature-rich but optical ones from the last century. If you add such a tool to your own software, is not a reference. The tool you suggested - I ...

... we should all work and contribute to one version. Best regards, Otto My answer to Vilian, who suggested ADS. Hello Vilian, It is a pity. The ADS dBase editor is professional, but exactly the functions that we need all the time don't exist there. Especially now, when we use a lot of small DBF ...

Hello Vilian, It is a pity. The ADS dBase editor is professional, but exactly the functions that we need all the time don't exist there. Especially now, when we use a lot of small DBF files with mod harbor and these without an index, we need ...

Dear friends, May I ask you today which "DBU" you are using. I currently don't have a version that works well. I edit the data with one dBase editor, but need a different editor to change tables. If there are new field types in the DBF, then another editor is required. Also, none of my ...

Dear friends, May I ask you today which "DBU" you are using. I currently don't have a version that works well. I edit the data with one dBase editor, but need a different editor to change tables. If there are new field types in the DBF, then another editor is required. Also, none of my ...