xbase::sdbm(3) [suse man page]

XBase::SDBM(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    XBase::SDBM(3)

NAME

       XBase::SDBM - SDBM index support for dbf

DESCRIPTION

       When developing the XBase.pm/DBD::XBase module, I was trying to support as many existing variants of file formats as possible. The module
       thus accepts wide range of dbf files and their versions from various producers. But with index files, the task is much, much harder. First,
       there is little or no documentation of index files formats, so the development is based on reverse engineering.

       None if the index formats support is finalized. That made it hard to integrate them into one consistent API. That is why I decided to write
       my own index support, and as I wanted to avoid inventing yet another way of storing records in pages and similar things, I used SDBM. It
       comes with Perl, so you already have it, and it's proven and it works.

       Now, SDBM is a module that aims at other task than to do supporting indexes for a dbf. But equality tests are fast with it and I have
       creted a structure in each index file to enable "walk" though the index file.

VERSION

       0.200

AUTHOR

       (c) 2001 Jan Pazdziora, adelton@fi.muni.cz, http://www.fi.muni.cz/~adelton/ at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech
       Republic

       All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.12.1							    2001-08-19							    XBase::SDBM(3)

DBFDUMP(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						DBFDUMP(1)

NAME

       dbfdump - Dump the record of the dbf file

FORMAT

	       dbfdump [options] files

       where options are

	       --rs	       output record separator (default newline)
	       --fs	       output field separator (default colon)
	       --fields        comma separated list of fields to print (default all)
	       --undef	       string to print for NULL values (default empty)
	       --memofile      specifies unstandard name of attached memo file
	       --memosep       separator for dBase III dbt's (default x1ax1a)

	       --nomemo        do not try to read the memo (dbt/fpt) file
	       --info	       print info about the file and fields
		       with additional --SQL parameter, outputs the SQL create table
	       --version       print version of the XBase library
	       --table	       output in nice table format (only available when
		       Data::ShowTable is installed, overrides rs and fs)

SYNOPSIS

	       dbfdump -fields id,msg table.dbf
	       dbfdump -fs=' : ' table
	       dbfdump --nomemo file.dbf

	       ssh user@host 'cat file.dbf.gz' | gunzip - | dbfdump -

DESCRIPTION

       Dbfdump prints to standard output the content of dbf files listed. By default, it prints all fields, separated by colons, one record on a
       line. The output record and column separators can be changed by switches on the command line. You can also ask only for some fields to be
       printed.

       The content of associated memo files (dbf, fpt) is printed for memo fields, unless you use the "--nomemo" option.

       You can specify reading the standard input by putting dash (-) instead of file name.

AUTHOR

       (c) 1998--1999 Jan Pazdziora, adelton@fi.muni.cz, http://www.fi.muni.cz/~adelton/ at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno,
       Czech Republic

SEE ALSO

       perl(1); XBase(3)

perl v5.12.1							    2010-07-05								DBFDUMP(1)