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| author | ade <ade@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-09-20 01:06:01 +0800 |
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| committer | ade <ade@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-09-20 01:06:01 +0800 |
| commit | 2aa83bef223c615599159308b4ed5242ff07c0f4 (patch) | |
| tree | bbc5a7f85401d3846d4597260d38079185a72572 /databases/p5-DBD-XBase/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 905faef160c258a799cf4abd3c32c7c63a84a0f1 (diff) | |
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Add p5-DBD-XBase, providing access to XBase (dBase, Fox*) database files,
namely dbf, dbt, fpt, ndx, ntx, mdx, idx and cdx.
PR: 21167
Submitted by: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@jane.cgu.chel.su>
Diffstat (limited to 'databases/p5-DBD-XBase/pkg-descr')
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diff --git a/databases/p5-DBD-XBase/pkg-descr b/databases/p5-DBD-XBase/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a7751b25c32f --- /dev/null +++ b/databases/p5-DBD-XBase/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Module XBase provides access to XBase (dBase, Fox*) database files, +namely dbf, dbt, fpt, ndx, ntx, mdx, idx and cdx. It provides native +Perl interface ($table->get_record, $table->update_record) to read +and write the tables. The index support is alpha and read only at the +moment. + +Module DBD::XBase is a DBI driver that uses the XBase module +to work with the data, providing you with DBI compliant processing +interface and SQL commands ($dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM TABLE")). As +an argument to DBI->connect, specify "dbi:XBase:$dir", where $dir is +the directory with the data files. + +Jan Pazdziora, adelton@fi.muni.cz |