XB_COPYDBF(1)

📦 version 4.2.6, in fedora 44

💖 XB_COPYDBF 💖

okay bestie, so like — <rainbow>xb_copydbf</rainbow> is that girl who copies the structure of one DBF file into a brand new DBF file. She's a format-forger. A blueprint-borrower. And yes she's in the General Commands Manual, section 1, because she's a whole command-line icon 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xb_copydbf -i source.DBF -t target.DBF
xb_copydbf -h
xb_copydbf -v

like. three ways to run her. that's it. that's the vibe. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea, bestie: xb_copydbf copies the format from an existing DBF table sitting in source.DBF over to target.DBF. 🦋

IMPORTANT: data and indices are NOT copied. she takes the skeleton, not the soul. no rows, no index files, nothing. just the shape. periodt. 💀

👑 OVERVIEW 👑

The Xbase64 library is out here providing a bunch of utility programs plus a whole set of C++ classes for application programming — for reading, writing and updating DBF database files, NDX and MDX index files, and DBT memo files. ✨

Version 4.x.x has been tested for compatability with with dBASE III (TM), dBASE IV (TM) and dBASE 5 (TM) version data files and indices:

  • *.DBF — data 🌈
  • *.NDX — single tag index 🎀
  • *.MDX — multi tag index 💜
  • *.DBT — memo 🍓

And in RDBMS parlance? every single *.DBF file would be a table. iykyk. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, -?, --help — display help information. your girl is helpful, she's generous, she's telling you how to use her. 🫶
  • -v, --version — display version information. the "who even are you" flag. ✨
  • -i input.DBF — source DBF file. this is where the format is coming from, the origin story, the blueprint. 🌸
  • -t output.DBF — target DBF file. this is where that format lands. the glow-up destination. 💖

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • *.DBF
  • *.DBT

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Gary Kunkel <xdb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> — we stan. 💜

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

like, the whole friend group. go read them too. 😭

🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

found something cursed? tell <xdb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> — she wants to know, no cap. 📧

GNU · 2023-11-18 — okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah, go copy some DBF structures responsibly 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅

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