dBASE Reader and Converter News

dbf 0.8 is a converter for dBASE, FoxBase, FoxPro and Clipper. The new release comes with several small new features and some bugfixes:

- Changed the options parsing system and the options id, so that options
with a single hyphen can also be used and displayed in the help.
- Inserted a fail safe routine which checks that the original file will
never be overwritten if the options filename is missing
- Tab-separated files without quoted text-passages can be created by using
't' as separator.
- Fix for date strings in SQL: According the PostgreSQL manual, SQL (ANSI) requires
date strings to be quoted, ie. '20031029'
send in by Tommi Rintala, t2r@wasalab.com
- Can differentiate between dBASE, FoxPro, FoxBase and Clipper
- --view-info reports the database type and version number
- supports datatypes int, float, double and logical in SQL and CSV
- introduced cast operations for CSV and SQL export
- differentiates between deleted and existent data sets