#6057 (dbfreader fails to read the PAR.DBF)

by Luc Saffre · in Developers · assigned to Luc Saffre

1 aasta, 6 kuud ago by Luc Saffre about #6057 (dbfreader fails to read the PAR.DBF) : And here was the information I needed: "Character fields can be up to 32 KB long (in Clipper and FoxPro) using decimal count (field_places) as high byte in field length." Written almost 10 years ago by Erik Bachmann.
1 aasta, 6 kuud ago by Luc Saffre about #6057 (dbfreader fails to read the PAR.DBF) : Ha! I found the explanation: PAR.DEF contains a line ddAddField("Plaques","C",340,0), i.e. field length is > 255.
1 aasta, 6 kuud ago by Luc Saffre about #6057 (dbfreader fails to read the PAR.DBF) : The first record of the PAR table (IdPar 00005) gets read successfully, but the second record (IdPar 00008) has received a slice of data that is shifted.
1 aasta, 6 kuud ago by Luc Saffre about #6057 (dbfreader fails to read the PAR.DBF) : I'm looking a the xBase data file specs and the source code, trying things, but still no clue about why this happens. I installed a local copy of the Lino site so that I can play locally. The file is obviously not corrupt since the same file works fine when used by TIM. Number of records is the same...
1 aasta, 6 kuud ago by Luc Saffre about #6057 (dbfreader fails to read the PAR.DBF) : Created new Ticket #6057 (dbfreader fails to read the PAR.DBF).