[DXBase] How do you export to cabrillo for SKN ARRL contest

2004年1月02日 08:35:09

At 09:03 AM 1/2/2004 -0600, FireBrick wrote:
>1. As far as I know, there is no DXBase to Cabrillo converter.
>There is the DXBase to adif of course.
>If you have the program Cabrillo Tools you can convert adif.
>>2. As a adif file is just a text file, you can import it into Excel.
>If you have the older version of Access, you can always read the DXBase
.mdb file and
>manipulate it as you wish.
>>.........WARNING....... Make a safely stored backup prior to playing with
your .mdb file.
>Newer Access versions will read the DXBase .mdb file but if they are
updated, they will no
>longer be useable with DXBase...

Actually, not quite what I have observed. You can open the DXbase .mdb
file using Access 2000 and fiddle with the data --IF-- you have the file
open in DXbase at the same time.
Of course follow the WARNING above before doing this. When you open Access,
you will get the advisory that you can't make any changes to the database,
which is true as far as saving the file in Access, but with the file open
both places, the changes are made instantly and you don't have to save the
file using Access. 
Neat huh?
You can also use the Access 2000 Database Utilities to convert the .mdb
file to the latest format, fiddle with it and then convert it back to
Access 97 for use in DXbase.
Wes, N7WS