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Signed-off-by: B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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81 lines
2.9 KiB
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diff -Naur dbview-1.0.4/dbview.1 dbview-1.0.4.patched/dbview.1
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--- dbview-1.0.4/dbview.1 2006-11-20 10:57:12.000000000 -0500
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+++ dbview-1.0.4.patched/dbview.1 2024-09-05 02:19:19.648467993 -0400
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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.\" Boston, MA 02111, USA.
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.\"
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-.TH DBVIEW 1 "November 20th, 2006" "Unix" "Database Management"
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+.TH DBVIEW 1 "September 5, 2024" "Unix" "Database Management"
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.SH NAME
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dbview \- View dBase III files
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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it to convert your old .dbf files for further use with Unix. It should
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also work with dBase IV files, but this is mostly untested.
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-By default
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+By default,
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.B dbview
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displays the contents of a dBase III or IV database file. This is be
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done by displaying both the name of the field itself and its value. At
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the end of every record a newline is appended.
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.SH OPTIONS
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-If no option given
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+If no options are given,
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.B dbview
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only displays the database in its most friendly way.
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.B "\-\-reserve, \-r"
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Normally fieldnames are converted into a more friendly format. They
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are stored in capital letters, but that looks like shouting. This
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-parameter supresses the conversion.
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+parameter suppresses the conversion.
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.TP
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.B "\-\-trim, \-t"
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.TP
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.B "\-\-version, \-v"
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-displays version and exits.
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+displays the version and exits.
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.SH NOTES
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-As dBase is DOS, umlauts are stored using a different code table
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-(namely ASCII) than most modern unices (namely ANSI). If you encounter
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+As dBase is MS-DOS, umlauts are stored using a different code table
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+(namely ASCII) than most modern unices (namely Unicode or ISO-8859-1). If you encounter
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such a file, I would recommend piping the output through
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.BR recode (1)
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with
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These functions are provided by Valour Software as a gift.
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-I have modified and included this file and wrote a skeleton around
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-it. All together provides a powerful tool for dBase III and IV
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+I have modified and included this file and written a skeleton around
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+it. Altogether, it provides a powerful tool for dBase III and IV
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database manipulation under Unix.
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I mainly have written this program, because I've got several dbase
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files containing important information for me. As I won't go running
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-DOS everytime I need some of the stored information, I had to find a
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-viewer that runs unter Unix, resp. Linux, but unfortunately didn't
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+MS-DOS every time I need some of the stored information, I had to find a
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+viewer that runs under Unix, specifically Linux, but unfortunately didn't
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find one. So it was my turn.
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This package as a whole is published under the GNU Public License,
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It wasn't the intention to write a freaking viewer and reinvent the
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wheel again. Instead
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.B dbview
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-is intend to be used in conjunction with your favourite unix text
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+is intend to be used in conjunction with your favourite Unix text
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utilities like
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.BR cut ,
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.B recode
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