XB_DUMPDBT(1)

📦 version 4.2.6, in fedora 44

💖 xb_dumpdbt — section 1, General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair 🫶 this is the manual page for xb_dumpdbt, a little icon living in section 1 of the General Commands Manual. she's a command-line girlie, she's got one job, and she does it flawlessly. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

xb_dumpdbt — a program to dump memo data from a version 3 or 4 DBT memo data file. that's it, that's the whole personality 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xb_dumpdbt -t myfile.DBF

xb_dumpdbt -t myfile.DBF > destfile.txt

xb_dumpdbt -h

xb_dumpdbt -v

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so xb_dumpdbt dumps memo data from an xbase formatted table in a .DBT file straight to stdout. no cap, that's the whole deal. redirect it wherever you want and go off 💖

👑 OVERVIEW 👑

okay so context, because you deserve the lore 🌈

The Xbase64 library provides various utility programs and a 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 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) and *.DBT (memo). ✨

In RDBMS parlance, each *.DBF file would be a table. the .DBT file stores any variable length memo fields that are associated with the .DBF file. and the .DBT file has the same name as the DBF file with the exception the file extension is DBF an not DBF. 🙈 (that's what it says, bestie, i'm just the messenger)

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, -?, --help — display help information. the classic cry for assistance, she will answer 🫶
  • -v, --version — display version information. vibe check, but make it a number ✨
  • -t myfile.DBF — DBF file to print to stdout. this is the main character flag, the one you're actually here for 👑

🎀 FILES 🎀

*.DBF *.DBT

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Gary Kunkel <xdb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> — shoutout to Gary, we stan 🫡

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

iykyk, it's a whole friend group 💖

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, tell the girlies:

<xdb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>

and that's the page, periodt ✨ this one came from the GNU crew and it's dated 2023-11-18 — go forth and dump those memos, bestie, you're gonna slay 💅🦋💖

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