Charlie, Somewhere I have some source code written by a friend of mine that will read and write .dbf files. But unless you have a whole pile of data stored in .dbf files, I'm not sure why you would wnat to do this. posgresql and MySQL are far more powerful than any dbase engine ever written. Jim Wantz WB0TFK On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Charles Crawford wrote: > Thanks for all the help folks. I was hoping that I could get an xbase > application for Linux that would essentially allow me to just program away > in xbase and compile applications. Seems to me with these libraries, I > should be able to use a compiler that would create a program, but looks > like I need to create my own databases witht he dbf extension. Well, this > is not about speakup and so will end it here. > > -- Charlie. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >